When a Zen monk named Shushin GIDO, who lived in the Muromachi period, went from Kamakura to the hot springs in Atami which used to belong to the Hojo clan, he took down the following episode which he heard from a local monk in his dairy.
室町時代に禅僧の義堂周信が、鎌倉からかつて北条氏の所領であった熱海市の熱海温泉を訪れた際に、地元の僧から聞いた話を次のように日記に記している。