During the Edo period the haiku poet Matsuo BASHO visited the Aobaka grave of Tomonaga and composed the poem: 'Cloaked entirely in lichen and ivy, is this Buddha?'
江戸時代の俳人松尾芭蕉は青墓の朝長の墓所を訪れて「苔埋む蔦のうつつの念仏哉」と詠んでいる。