Unlike ordinary illustrated origins of shrines and temples, this picture scroll does not describe anything about details of how Chogosonshi-ji Temple was founded, but its subject mater is a miraculous stories of a highly virtuous monk called Myoren (命蓮) who was practicing in Mt. Shigi.
この絵巻は通常の社寺縁起絵とは異なって、朝護孫子寺の創建の経緯等については何も述べておらず、信貴山で修行していた命蓮（みょうれん）という聖（ひじり）の奇跡譚が中心主題となっている。