National Treasures & Important Cultural Properties
of National Institutes for Cultural Heritage, Japan

　This scroll contains waka poems (a 31-syllable Japanese poem) composed by 32 people who attended a waka party held when Retired Emperor Gosaga (1220 – 1272) visited Kitayama on March 5, 1259.
The paper used for this scroll is made of thoroughly beaten paper mulberry, on which arabesque, cloud, waterside bird, grass, bamboo and plum patterns are created with mica powder. For the cover, paper called "ramonshi" is used, where a haze-like pattern is created with kneaded gold and silver leaf. Among Chinese paper used in the Kamakura period, there were some called "starched paper," that is, paper on which funori (glue made of alga) or dosa (a type of glue) was applied.