Norinaga MOTOORI wrote, in his collection of essays "Tamakatsuma," that 2,000 to 3,000 people, and up to as many as 230,000 people, passed through Matsuzaka City each day from late April.
本居宣長の玉勝間の記載によると、4月上旬から1日に2～3千人が松阪市を通り、最高は1日23万人である。