A poem of Karagoromo was taken from "Shin Kokin Waka Shu" (New Collection of Ancients and Modern Poems), and it was composed with the new koto tuning method called 'Shinkokin tuning' (New Ancient and Modern tuning) devised by Yoshizawa himself.
新古今和歌集から唐衣の歌を採り、吉沢自身が考案した「新古今調子」という新たな箏の調弦法によって作曲されている。