However, the existing picture scroll is lacking the part of the kotobagaki (epigraphs, head notes) about Makibi arriving in Tang and being imprisoned in the opening scene, and the scene where Makibi succeeds in breaking a code of the 'Yamatai shi' (Poem on Japan) in the latter part.
但し、現存の絵巻は、冒頭の真備が入唐して幽閉される詞書および、後半部分である「野馬台詩」の解読に成功して帰国を果たす場面は欠いている。