 According to the entry for the 18th, Teika was initially meant to be included, but that due to the machinations of only poets of a certain age and over were to be allowed participate.Teika was naturally upset at this.In the "Maigetsushō" entry for the ninth day of the following month, however, Teika records that the previous night it had been decided that he, along with the poets Fujiwara no Ietaka and , would be allowed participate, recording that this was due to the intervention of his father submitting a plea to retired emperor.