However, Kinto was regretful, thinking that if he had chosen the boat of Chinese poetry he would have won even more renown, reminiscing that when Michinaga told him to choose a boat he was full of pride at being thought a master of all three fields.
ところが公任は、漢詩の舟を選んでおけば、もっと名声が上がったはずだと悔やみ、道長に舟を選べと言われたときに、すべての分野で認められているとうぬぼれてしまったと述懐した。