As the pinnacle of commentary on "Makura no Soshi" in the early modern period, it not only overwhelmed Bansai KATO's (1625 - 1674) "Seishonagon Makura no Soshi Sho," another commentary on "The Pillow Book" which was published the same year, but it was also widely circulated in multiple editions until the Meiji period (it is said that pirated editions were already commonplace circa the Genroku era (1688 - 1703).
近世における枕草子注釈の最高峰として、同じ年に刊印された加藤盤斎（1625－1674）の『清少納言枕草紙抄』を圧倒したばかりでなく、明治まで版を重ねて広く流布した（元禄の頃にはすでに海賊版が横行したという）。