Since the medieval Kamakura period, the Chorenga had evolved into a hundred-stanza sequence, and after the period of the Northern and Southern Courts (Japan) it reached its golden age in the Muromachi period.
中世の鎌倉時代から100句を基準とする長連歌の形式が整えられ、南北朝時代(日本)を経て室町時代が最盛期とされる。