Additionally, a tanka (a 31-syllable Japanese poem) composed by Michizane SUGAWARA about ume blossoms is well known, having given rise to a superstition that 'if you place an umeboshi in a box lunch you take when you go fishing, you will not catch fish.'
また、菅原道真が梅を詠んだ短歌は有名で、後に「釣りのときの弁当に梅干しを入れると、魚が釣れなくなる」という縁起かつぎを生んだ。