 The first pair of poems, included in Book V of the collection, were written on a sea voyage from his posting in Tsukushi to the capital, expressing his pining for his feeling of loneliness without his wife and his desire to see her as soon as possible.In his commentary on the poems, noted the use of taboo language, apparently deliberately so, to emphasize the sincerity of the poet's emotions.The last of Mimichi's poems in the collection's ordering (which is not strictly chronological across books), 3844, is of uncertain date.