Although Sanetaka koki was written during the late Muromachi period or the first half of the Sengoku period (Period of Warring States), it was more concerned with poetry parties and copying the classics rather than the movement of the disturbances of wars.
実隆公記の書かれた時期は室町時代の後期あるいは戦国時代(日本)の前期にあたる時代であるが、戦乱の動向よりも歌会や古典の書写に関する記述が多くを割かれている。