He appointed the old man tending the fires who had finished the verse, 'When the days are put together, nine nights and ten days have already passed, as the kuninomiyatsuko of Azuma.'
それに、「日々並べて（かがなべて）夜には九夜日には十日を」との下句を付けた火焚きの老人を東の国造に任じた。