Saigyo also organized another poetry contest "Miyagawa Utaawase" and it is significant that he asked FUJIWARA no Teika, who was nothing more than a budding poet in those days, to be the judge of the contest (These two utaawase were dedicated to the Inner Shrine and the Outer Shrine of the Grand Shrine of Ise, respectively).
またさらに自歌合『宮河歌合』を作って当時いまだ一介の新進歌人に過ぎなかった藤原定家に判を請うたことは特筆に価する（この二つの歌合はそれぞれ伊勢神宮の内宮と外宮に奉納された）。