It was put together by an unknown compiler sometime after the mid-tenth century and survives in three variant textual traditions.
Later imperial anthologies attributed poems to Okikaze based on their inclusion in this collection.
The Okikaze-shū is a personal collection (kashū) of the waka of the 10th-century poet Fujiwara no Okikaze.
[1] The Okikaze-shū has three distinct textual lines, but scholars consider them to have originated from a single Urtext.
[1] Line 2 is represented by a manuscript traditionally attributed to Bōmon-no-tsubone [ja], and includes 53 poems.