However, before that, it was known that the Cloistered Emperor Goshirakawa ordered Joken hoin to have four volumes of Emaki drawn by the painter Akizane (明実) in 1171, about ten years after the Heiji War and after the Emperor Goshirakawa became a priest and a Cloistered Emperor after the enthronement of Emperor Takakura whose wife was a daughter of TAIRA no Kiyomori.
しかしそれより以前、平安時代末期の承安(日本)1年（1171年）、平治の乱から約10年、平清盛の娘を妻とする高倉天皇の即位後、後白河天皇が出家して法皇となった後に、後白河法皇が静賢法印に命じ、絵師明実の筆による4巻の絵巻を制作させたことが知られる。