This earthenware pot was enshrined in a corner at Honmaru (the keep of a castle) of Yonezawa-jo Castle even after the Uesugi family moved to Yonezawa, later after the Meiji Restoration, it was moved to a mausoleum where successive lords of the domain were laid to rest.
この甕は上杉家が米沢に移った後も米沢城本丸一角に安置され、明治維新の後、歴代藩主が眠る御廟へと移された。