Although it would be the second classification, several writings and family traditions which were handed down in the families of shogun's vassals seem to have been used for the whole record of Shogun Yoritomo.
またこれは第2の分類になるが、頼朝将軍記の時代全般に渡って、いくつかの御家人の家に伝わる文書や家伝書のようなものが利用されたと思われる。