Toki' in the title is related to the belief that Mitsuhide AKECHI is a descendant of the Toki clan, and it is also related to a part of the linked verse ("renga" in Japanese) called 'Tensho Junen Atago Hyakuin' (A Hundred Stanzas Composed in Atago in 1582).
名題の「時」は明智光秀が土岐氏の末裔であった説と、謀反の直前愛宕山の宿坊で詠んだ連歌「天正十年愛宕百韻」に由来する。