It was a common view that the author of the story was the same as that of "Hogen Monogatari" until the early-modern times, but in recent years it has generally been assumed that the two works were written by different authors.
作者については、近世までは『保元物語』と同一とみる理解が通説であったが、近年は別人であると考えるのが一般的である。