The 113th abbot of Shokokuji, Daiten Kenjo, had been very close to Baisao, and so he wrote "Baisao den" ("The Life of Baisao"), whose first section was entitled "the gatha (Buddhist poems) of Baisao."
親交の深かった相国寺第113世大典顯常によって『売茶翁伝』が書かれ『売茶翁偈語』の巻頭となっている。