It is sung by the noh background singing the memory that 'when I was a child, I had no father and no mother but I received the teaching of the priest (Hossho-bo) in Mt. Hiei and I studied "inviting the moon to the window of the beauties of the nature, collecting fireflies, knowing clearly the minds of the summer insects, with the woods of writing brushes having many branches, and without depletion of the fountain of words"'.
｢幼かりしその昔は、父もなく、母もなく、比叡山で僧正（法性坊）の教えをうけ、『風月の窓に月を招き、蛍を集め夏虫の心のうちも明らかに、筆の林も枝茂り、言葉の泉も尽きもせず』勉強した」という思い出が能地謡によって謡われる。