A children's song of Kyoto sings of this fire, 'Great Buddha of Kyoto burned due to the tenka (fire from lightening) and Sanjusangendo Temple left, don-don-don (don-don-yake (a word commonly used by Kyoto citizens for the rapidly spreading fire that started from a fire at the time of the Kinmon Incident)), kora-don-don-don.'
「京の大仏つぁんは天火で焼けてな、三十三間堂が焼け残った、どんどんどん、こらどんどんどん」という京都のわらべ歌はこの時の火災のことを歌っている。