Although Masuda was known as the leading collector of the time, he couldn't afford the hand scrolls by himself, so he decided to divide the hand scrolls into each poet's portrait to distribute.
大コレクターとして知られた益田もさすがにこの絵巻を一人で買い取ることはできず、彼の決断で、絵巻は歌仙一人ごとに分割して譲渡することとなった。