The Saga-bon was also called Kadokura-bon (a Kadokura book) or Koetsu-bon (a Koetsu book), and began to be published by Soan SUMINOKURA, a wealthy person in Saga who was said to be one of the three richest men in Kyoto, mainly in the area of Japanese literature printed in the handwriting style of Koetsu HONAMI.
嵯峨本は、別名角倉本、光悦本ともいい、京の三長者に数えられる嵯峨の素封家角倉素庵が開版し、多くは本阿弥光悦の書体になる文字摺りの国文学の出版であった。