Chronologically, Saigyo was living in seclusion in the base of the mountains in northern Kyoto, in places such as Kurama, immediately after being a priest and traveled to the Ou region for the first time around 1144.
年次に従って言えば、出家直後は鞍馬などの京都北麓に隠棲し、天養初年（1144年）ごろ奥羽地方へはじめての旅行。