Emperor Kazan's pilgrimage statue of the Goddess of Kannon has been inherited to the present as pilgrimage through 33 places in the western region, and each of the poems made by the Emperor in different sacred places has become a Buddhist (pilgrim's) hymn [chant].
この花山法皇の観音巡礼が西国三十三箇所巡礼として現在でも継承されており、各霊場で詠んだ御製の和歌が詠歌となっている。