 Rosette F. Willig, who translated it into English, considers the version she used, "Ima Torikaebaya", to have been written between 1100–70, and suggested that some elements of the tale may be autobiographical.There are over eighty extant manuscripts of "Torikaebaya Monogatari".The setting of Torikaebaya is at some "indefinite point" in the distant past of the Heian era — the Crown Princess's status adds to the "air of antiquity" in the work, as that particular issue of succession did not present itself from the eighth century to the seventeenth century.