It is a typical dynastic story that includes approximately 800 waka poems, and consists of 54 chapters with roughly a million words, although such figures are slightly different between the versions of the manuscript and the text.
54帖より成り、写本・版本により多少の違いはあるもののおおむね100万文字に及ぶ長篇で、800首弱の和歌を含む典型的な王朝物語。