Because "Shui wakashu" (Collection of Gleanings of Japanese Poems) also contains this poem, it is likely to be one modeled after Hitomaro, as many of Hitomaro's poems in the Heian Period and afterwards are.
『拾遺和歌集』にもとられいるので、平安以降の人麻呂の多くの歌がそうであるように、人麻呂に擬せられた歌であろう。