Title from title piece mounted on scroll.

Reproduces ms. copy of mid 13th century in Tokugawa Reimeikai collection.

Colophon mounted on verso of scroll (at end).

Scroll (black and white): 30.3 x 798.0 cm. (28.0 cm. blank before the text; 21.8 cm. blank after the text).

LC copy has a piece of paper pasted on top of scroll "Saigyo monogatari (an illustrated life of Priest Saigyo, 1118-90) in the possession of Marquis Tokugawa. Reproduced by the Yamato-e dokokai. Tokyo, 1922. 1 scroll"

Sakanishi collection? "Ja 26, 38"

Nihon koten bungaku daijiten, v. 3, p. 12 (Saigyō monogatari emaki, [remaining] 2-kan, emaki; dai 1-kan, Tokugawa Reimeikai zō; dai 2-kan, Manno-ke zō [Ōhara-bon]; painter and calligrapher not known; produced mid kamakura period).

Kokusho sōmokuroku, v. 3, p. 635 (Saigyō monogatari, includes [reproduction] by Yamatoe Dōkōkai, Taishō 12 and Shōwa 2).

Shinshū Nihon emakimono zenshū, v. 12, p. 11, etc. (Saigyō monogatari emaki, Tokugawa-bon; originally finished mid-13th cent.; the original has postscript with possible painter and calligrapher suggested).