As it can be seen from the fact that publications by old typographic printing and woodblock printing were already available by the early Edo period, it is the most widely distributed written record on noh play of the modern era.
江戸時代初期ごろまでに古活字本・板本が版行されていたことからもわかるように、近世期を通じてもっとも流布した能伝書であった。