The oldest existing copy was a two-part manuscript (which is missing the section from the opening sentence to the start of Volume 1) that belonged to the Kujo Family, and that is believed to have been created during the Kamakura Period.
現存する最古のものは、九条家に伝えられていた鎌倉時代後期に書写されたと見られる写本上下巻（冒頭から巻一神祇官の前半部を欠落）がある。