The author TAIRA no Yasuyori (Buddhist name, Shosho) was a member of the Northern Guard for the retired emperor Goshirakawa, and was also appointed to the Imperial Police and the gate guards at the same time, however, in 1177, he was exposed as a participant in the Shishigatani plot (a failed uprising against the rule of Taira no Kiyomori), and was exiled to Kikaigashima island (Iwojima island off the Satsuma coast), although he was recalled to Kyoto the next year in an amnesty due to Empress TAIRA no Tokuko's healthy childbirth.
作者平康頼（法名性照）は後白河院の北面の武士で、検非違使兼衛門府に任ぜられたが、安元三年（1177）、鹿ケ谷の陰謀に預かり、事敗れて鬼界ヶ島（薩摩沖の硫黄島）に流刑されたが、翌年、中宮平徳子平産のための大赦によって召還され帰京。