The well-known shikimoku were Goseibai-shikimoku or Joe-shikimoku (code of conduct for samurai) compiled by Yasutoki HOJO, the regent of Kamakura bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun), and Kenmu Code compiled by Tadayoshi ASHIKAGA as an administrative policy of the Muromachi bakufu.
著名なものとして鎌倉幕府の執権北条泰時が編纂した御成敗式目（貞永式目）及び室町幕府の施政方針として足利直義が編纂した建武式目が著名である。