By the advice of recording the content of his discussions and lectures by one of his closest customers, Daiten Kenjo, who was famous as an expert in Chinese poetry at Shokoku-ji temple, Baisao did begin to do so, but soon involved Daiten in and in the end, Daiten recorded these conversations.
その内容を書き留めてゆくというものをしたらどうかと馴染み客でもあり相国寺で漢詩の得意な大典顯常にいわれて始めてみたが、あっさり売茶翁に飲み込まれ、大典が結局書き残すことになる。