It is a war chronicle comprising 81 volumes plus a separate volume entitled "Intokuki jo oyobi mokuroku" (Preface and Table of Contents for the Intokuki); it is focused mainly on the Sanin and Sanyo regions and begins its account in the time of the thirteenth Shogun of the Muromachi period, Yoshiteru ASHIKAGA, and continuing until the Keicho Campaign (or in other words, it covers a roughly 90-year span from 1507 to 1598).
全81巻と「陰徳記序および目録」1冊で、戦国時代(日本)の山陰地方、山陽地方を中心に、室町時代13代将軍足利義輝の時代から、慶長の役まで（永正8年（1507年）頃-慶長3年（1598年）頃までの約90年間）を書く軍記物語。