Doso-shin (traveler's guardian deity) stone statue, small shrines, and jizo (the Guardian Deity of Travelers and Children) located at a roadside leading to a village means not only invocation of a deity for safety travel but also a barrier against tokoyo.
集落に繋がる道の辻に、石造の道祖神や祠や地蔵があるのは、道すがらや旅の安全の祈願祈念だけでなく、常世との端境にある結界の意味を持つ。