FUJIWARA no Toshinari who studied under Mototoshi often used Yugen as a criticism word like "It reached Yugen already." "It sounds just like Yugen." "It is the Yugen style." "A Yugen mind." "It looks like Yugen." in his judgment words of Utaawase.
基俊に師事した藤原俊成は、歌合の判詞の中で、幽玄を「姿既に幽玄の境に入る」「幽玄にこそ聞え侍れ」「幽玄の体なり」「心幽玄」「風体は幽玄」と批評用語として多用した。