The contest started with master poets gathered including KI no Tsurayuki (Tsure: accompanying actor), and as soon as Komachi's poem was read out, Kuronushi criticized it by saying 'it is not her original, but one of existing poems.'
歌合当日、紀貫之（ツレ）を初め歌人たちが居並ぶ中で小町の歌が詠み上げられるが、黒主は「その歌は既存の古歌である」と難ずる。