As head instructor at the fukiawase-dokoro, Kinko KUROSAWA set the pieces he had gathered to notation and established an order in which the repertoire of honkyoku was to be studied, as well as laid the foundation enabling the Kinko school to later adapt the shakuhachi to secular music.
吹合所の指南役であった初代琴古は、これらの曲の譜字のや習曲順の整理を行い、宗教音楽をはなれた琴古流の基礎を築いた。