Sanesuke very politely declined to give a poem in response, and instead, he suggested for everyone to recite this 'fine poem' together, and all the court nobilities recited this poem over and over again.
実資は丁重に返歌を断り、代わりに一同が和してこの「名歌」を詠ずることを提案し、公卿一同がこの歌を繰り返し何度も詠った。