In addition, the content of Saigyo Monogatari varies widely among various manuscripts and printed books, and only the episode concerning the scene of his becoming a monk was depicted in the manuscripts of the old age (for example, Den Abutsuni Shahon (the manuscript attributed to Abutsuni) in the middle of Kamakura period).
加えて西行物語は写本・版本間の異同が大きい作品であり、古い時代の西行物語の写本（例えば鎌倉中期の伝阿仏尼写本）では父の出家時のエピソードしか存在しない。