Recently, in addition to the calligraphic works in the Song and Yuan era, those by Zen priests of the Obaku school in the Edo period have also generally come to be called bokuseki.
近来では、宋、元時代の他に、江戸時代の黄檗派の禅僧の書風も墨跡と呼ぶのが一般的となっている。