It is believed that the first set of one hundred poems by an individual poet was "Hyakuchi no Uta" (百ちの歌) composed in 960 as part of the 'Sotanshu,' the personal poetry collection of SONE no Yoshitada.
1人で詠んだ百首歌は960年（天徳4年）曾禰好忠の家集「曾丹集」のなかの『百ちの歌』に始まるとされる。