When Zekkai Chushin of the Rokuon-in sub-temple of Shokoku-ji Temple was appointed soroku, the grave of Yoshimitsu was placed within the temple grounds and it came to be that the head priest of this temple also served as soroku, being called 'Rokuon Soroku.'
特に相国寺鹿苑院の絶海中津が僧録に任じられると、以後義満の塔所が同院に置かれた事もあり、その住持が僧録を兼務するようになり「鹿苑僧録（ろくおんそうろく）」と呼ばれるようになった。