However, it took him as many as thirty-five years before it was completed in 1798, during which he wrote other books, including "Tamakatsuma" (a collection of essays) and "Uiyamabumi" (First Steps into the Mountain).
間に『玉勝間』や『うひ山ぶみ』などの執筆も挟んで1798年（寛政10年）まで35年かけて成立した。