It is said that OTOMO no Kuronushi, who was one of the Rokkasen (six best Waka poets) like Komachi, plagiarized Komachi's waka poem and introduced the poem in the anthology of waka poems.
小町と同じく六歌仙の1人である大伴黒主が、小町の歌を自分の歌として歌集に書き込んだという。