There were some quotations from other technical books on sake brewing that had been written in earlier times, which means that there had been such kind of books before "Domoshuzoki," but none of those have been found and it is totally unknown what book they were.
なかには、これより前の時代に書かれていた酒造技術書から引用している箇所が多く、『童蒙酒造記』以前にも優れた同類の書物が存在したことがうかがわれるが、現在まで発見されておらず、はたしてどういう文献が存在したのかすら謎である。