This tale was dramatized by Zeami into a Noh play and it is known by its title "Ukai" (cormorant fishing); in this temple and in the local society there is maintained a legend that the cormorant fisherman 'Kansaku' was Tokitada who had escaped from his place of exile, Noto Province, came to this place as a drifter, and lived as a fisherman.
この話は後に世阿弥により能に脚色され、『鵜飼』の演目で知られているが、当寺および地元ではこの話の鵜匠「勘作」が実は時忠であり、配流先の能登国から逃れてこの地に流れ着き、漁師をしていたという伝説を伝えている。