On a picture of 'kami-shi' in the "Shichijuichiban Shokunin Uta-awase" (Seventy-one workmen's waka competition) written in 1500, there is a waka written as; 'Although blue thin clouds were drawn on karakami, the moonlight is dazzlingly beautiful underneath. By a kami-shi.'
明応9年（1500年）の『七十一番職人歌合』の唐紙師（かみし）の図には、「そら色のうす雲ひけどからかみの下きららなる月のかげなりから紙師（かみし）」とある。