Because many sections of the manuscript that remain in the Shigure-tei storehouse of the Reizei family were cut apart in order to be made into hanging scrolls and the like, the copy held by the Tokudaiji family, which is considered close to the original, is usually used for the purposes of research and so forth.
冷泉家時雨亭文庫に残る原本は掛け軸等にするため切り取られている部分が多いため、研究などには一般には原本に近いとされる徳大寺家本が使用されている。