The phrase, which was created making fun of Shinegen when Nobunaga entered Kyoto ahead of Shingen, was contained in Shinseninu tsukuba shu (anthology of Haikairenga (a type of Renga)), a book of Haikai (seventeen-syllable verse) at that time; as shown below.
信長が信玄に先んじて上洛した際、当時の俳諧書である新撰犬筑波集では、次のように揶揄する句が記されている。