On this occasion, he found an old tachibana tree (mandarin orange tree) standing in front of the shrine, and composed waka (a traditional Japanese poem of 31 syllables), the main idea of which was that he (Moroki) became old like this tachibana tree.
その際、神社の前に橘の老木が茂っていたの見つけ、この橘の木のように自ら（衆樹）も老いてしまった、との趣旨の和歌を詠んだ。