This chapter was the longest of all the chapters in The Tale of Genji, but today it is split into two volumes consisting of 'Wakana, Volume one' and 'Wakana, Volume two,' being regarded the thirty-fourth chapter and thirty-fifth chapter respectively, and the chapter of 'Kumogakure (vanish behind the clouds),' which is not extant now, is excluded from the story.
本巻は源氏物語中最長の巻であり、現在では通常本文の存在しない「雲隠」を除いて「若菜上（-じょう）」および「若菜下（-げ）」としそれぞれ第34帖、第35帖とされていることが多い。