During the Edo period, a Japanese poet YOSA no Buson composed the poem 'A plum tree standing beside the Sumiya (a Geisha house established at the Korokan site), did you watch the prosperity of Korokan in those days?'
また江戸時代には与謝蕪村が「白梅や墨芳しき鴻臚館」と詠っている。