Between 1142 and 1144, Sutokuin set subjects for poems, and while there were 14 writers, including FUJIWARA no Kinyoshi, FUJIWARA no Norinaga, FUJIWARA no Akisuke and FUJIWARA no Toshinari in addition to Sutokuin himself, some of them died while it was being completed and were replaced by the other poets.
康治年間（1142年～1144年）に崇徳院から題が下され、作者は崇徳院のほか藤原公能、藤原教長、藤原顕輔、藤原俊成など14名であるが、途中で死去により入れ替わった作者もいる。