In "Horaisan" which is a song for Satsuma biwa (Satsuma lute) in such period, there is a song that has the same words as the present Kimigayo and therefore the view that the words of the present "Kimigayo" was taken from this song by a person from Satsuma during the Meiji Period is prevailing (refer to the following section).
この時代の薩摩琵琶の歌のひとつである『蓬莱山』に現在知られるものと同じ歌詞のものが見られ、よって現在の「君が代」は、明治期に薩摩人がここから採ったものとする説が有力である（次節も参照）。