In those days, Hideyoshi was interested in Noh play so passionately that he could not be satisfied with playing the existing noh plays, and ordered Yuko to write a new Noh plays to show his great achievements to the later generations.
当時の秀吉は能に傾倒すること甚だしく、既存の作品を演じるだけでは飽き足らず、由己に自身の偉業を後世に伝える新作能の作成を命じたといわれている。