On the contrary, Shijo Chunagon, who was so upset that he left without making a reply poem, disgraced himself in public, because it was against etiquette or custom in those days not to make a reply poem for the person who first composed a poem.
これに対し四条中納言は、当時歌を詠まれれば返歌を行うのが礼儀であり習慣であったにも関らず、狼狽のあまり返歌も出来ずに立ち去ってしまい恥を掻いたという。