Representative examples of such 'houses with diaries' include the Onomiya line of the Northern House of the Fujiwara clan, which had the "Chuyuki" (especially noteworthy is its entry for Novenber 12, 1091), and the TAIRA no Takamune line of the Taira clan (particularly the entry "Suberagi no moto" [Under the Emperor] in their "Imakagami").
「日記の家」の代表格は小野宮流藤原氏（『中右記』寛治5年11月12日条ほか）及び平高棟平氏（『今鏡』すべらぎの下）である。