| The Ogura Hyakunin Isshu (one hundred waka poems) has this tanka by KOSHIKIBU no Naishi, 'The road going over Mt. Oe and via Ikuno is so far that I have not set foot on Ama no Hashidate or seen a letter from my mother yet.' |
小倉百人一首には「大江山いく野の道の遠ければ、まだふみも見ず天の橋立」（小式部内侍）という歌がある。 |