"Gukansho" mentions the Hogen Disturbance, saying, 'Although I have heard there may be a little something of the sort, I have not been able to see it,' and "Futsu-shodo shu (A Selection of Ordinary Advocates)," completed in 1297, says that 'Tales of Heiji, Hogen and Heike' were told by Biwa-hoshi (a blind minstrel who played the biwa (lute)).
ただ、『愚管抄』に保元の乱についての話が「少々アルトカヤウケタマハレドモ、イマダ見侍ラズ」とあること、また永仁5年（1297年）成立の『普通唱導集』に「平治・保元・平家の物語」が琵琶法師によって語られたことが記されている。