Though Sanyo's literary works do not have the part equivalent to "retsuden" - a core part of "Shiki"-, "Nihon Gaishi" (22 volumes), which corresponds to the aforementioned "13 volumes of seika", was written in bibliographical style, so it can be considered equivalent to "restsuden" as well.
『史記』にあっては真骨頂というべき「列伝」に該当するものがないが前記の十三世家にあたる『日本外史』（全二十二巻）が列伝体で叙せられ、『史記』の「列伝」を兼ねたものと見ることもできる。