Perhaps wary of causing scandals, there exists an abridged version which removed obscene stories about the Empress Koken (later enthroned again as the Empress Shotoku) and the monk Dokyo, the Emperor Uda and FUJIWARA no Hoshi, and the Emperor Kazan and Uma no naishi.
あまりな醜聞暴露に恐れをなしたためか、孝謙天皇称徳天皇と道鏡、宇多天皇と藤原褒子、花山天皇と馬内侍らの淫猥な説話を削った略本もある。