This picture scroll was made during the Goshirakawa Insei period (period of cloistered governments) in the last part of the Heian period, and used to be kept by the Sakai family in Wakasa Province along with Kibidaijin Nitto Emaki (scroll depicting the visit of Minister Kibi to Tang China), which now belongs to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
平安時代末期の後白河院政期に成立した絵巻ものであり、かつてはボストン美術館の吉備大臣入唐絵などとともに若狭・酒井家に伝来した。