It consists of approximately 1350 poems: twenty volumes organized under headings of spring, summer, autumn, winter, congratulations, parting, acrostics, miscellaneous (One, Two), Kagura uta (poems, the theme of which is sacred Shinto dancing), love (five volumes), miscellaneous spring, miscellaneous autumn, miscellaneous congratulations, miscellaneous love, and laments.
春、夏、秋、冬、賀、別、物名、雑（上・下）、神楽歌、恋（五巻）、雑春、雑秋、雑賀、雑恋、哀傷の二十巻、約1350首からなる。