It is said that he loved ONO no Komachi, and she told him that if he kept visiting her for one hundred days, she would marry him, but on a snowy day, the ninety-ninth night, he froze to death under the snow.
小野小町を愛したといわれ、小町が私の元へ百日間通い続けたら結婚しようと言い、九十九夜通ったが、雪の降る日で、雪に埋まり凍死したとも言われている。