Together with the preceding line, 'Setsugetsuka no toki mottomo kimi o omou' is inluded in the Chapter of Friendship in "Wakan Roeishu" (Japanese and Chinese poems to sing); and the anecdote about Emperor Murakami mentioned above also was based on the association between 'setsugetsuka no toki' and 'mottomo kimi o omou.'
「雪月花時最憶君」は『和漢朗詠集』交友の部に前句とともに採られており、先に触れた村上天皇の挿話もこの連想を下敷きにしたものである。