Composed on February 24, 1927, this piece sets a poem by Kitahara Hakushu. Hakushu's poem was published in Akai Tori (Red Bird) in August 1926, the year prior to the composition.

This song was included as the 47th piece in Doyo Hyakkyokushu (One Hundred Children's Songs), Vol. 3 (based on poems by Kitahara Hakushu), and was published on November 15, 1927. Yamada moved from Tokyo to Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, after an internal dispute at the Japan Symphony Association in 1926. Doyo Hyakkyokushu is said to be a collection of works composed while commuting between Tokyo and Chigasaki. It also contains other representative children's songs by Yamada, such as "Akatombo" (Red Dragonfly).

Although it is a children's song, the vocal range of "Kono Michi" is very wide, and dynamic markings are indicated in great detail. Similar to "Karatachi no Hana," by assigning one syllable per eighth note and changing the time signature according to the melody, a melody that deviates from Western musical meter and closely follows the words is formed. Yamada set Hakushu's four-stanza poem as a strophic song.

I would like to point out the second chord in the second measure of the piano prelude. In the first edition (Yamada Kosaku Doyo Hyakkyokushu, November 15, 1927), it is notated to be played as an arpeggio from the lowest note: left hand "C# - G# - C#", right hand "E - G# - C# - E". However, in Nikkyo Gakufu No. 106 (Japan Symphony Association Publishing Department, November 23, 1927), published shortly thereafter, the left hand is "C# - A" and the right hand is "E - E", with no arpeggio indication. This alteration was not carried over into later widely distributed scores, which are often based on the first edition.