Under such circumstances, literature supremacy theory intensified in the poetry circles, and finally, Kado started to take on themes of the occult and mystics, which led to absolutization of Kado in waka after the medieval period.
そのような状況下で歌壇では文芸至上主義の傾向が強まり、ついには歌道の秘伝化・神秘化が発生して、中世以後の和歌における歌道の絶対化に至った。