It is said that when Nanpo OTA visited Lake Biwa, he was offered that if he could make a tanka containing all eight views of Omihakkei into thirty-one words, he could get a basket free of charge from an owner of a basket shop, then, he made it.
大田南畝が琵琶湖を訪れた際、近江八景8つすべてを31文字の歌の中に入れて詠んだら籠代をただにしてやると籠屋に問われ歌ってみせたとされる。