There were many discussions assessing the age it was produced based upon the painted scenery, Akira IMATANI specified the year of the scenery as 1547, and denied that it is not a work of Eitoku ("Kyoto, in 1547").
描かれた景観から制作年代について様々な議論が行われてきたが、今谷明は景観年代を1547年と限定し、永徳筆であることを否定した（『京都・一五四七年』）。