Finally arriving in Nobono (present-day Kameyama City in Mie Prefecture), Yamato Takeru no Mikoto composed four songs recalling his homeland starting with 'Yamato ha kuni no mahoroba...' (Yamato is an unsurpassed place among the lands...), and ended his life there.
そして、能煩野（三重県亀山市〉に到った倭建命はついに「倭は国のまほろば…」以下の4首の国偲び歌を詠って亡くなるのである。