Eight poems about Tomonoura can be found in the Manyoshu, including: 'My beloved wife saw this needle juniper at Tomonoura as we travelled down from Kyoto together./ Now that I am on the way back, the tree still remains alive though she departed this world.' (by Tabito OTOMO) and 'Whenever I see that juniper on the rocky beach of Tomonoura,/ I will remember my wife who used to see the tree with me./ How can I forget her?' (by Tabito OTOMO).
「吾妹子（わぎもこ）が見し鞆の浦のむろの木は常世にあれど見し人ぞなき（大伴旅人）」や「鞆の浦の礒のむろの木見むごとに相見し妹は忘らえめやも（大伴旅人）」等、万葉集には鞆の浦を詠んだ歌が八首残されている。