In the opening of the work, he wrote about the transitory nature of fleeting things, and then the disasters that had occurred in his time or in the past, and his life in a thatched hut was described during the latter part.
冒頭で移り行くもののはかなさを語った後、同時代・または過去の災厄についての記述が続き、後半には自らの草庵での生活が語られる。