Masuda then divided the hand scrolls of 36 poets into 37 pictures (including the picture of Sumiyoshi Myojin Shrine at the top of Volume Two) and tried to distribute each separated picture to 37 renderers by lottery.
三十六歌仙絵巻を37枚（下巻冒頭の住吉明神図を含む）に分割し、くじ引きで希望者に譲渡することとした。