Gotoku-ji Temple (Setagaya Ward, Tokyo), which is believed to be the birthplace of manekineko (beckoning cat), attributes its prosperity to 'the good luck brought by having repaid obligations to cats and a miracle of well-wish; the very reason why the temple is called neko-dera.'
招き猫発祥の地の伝説がある豪徳寺（東京都世田谷区）の由来には、寺の繁栄に関し「全く猫の恩に報い福を招き寄篤の霊験によるものにしてこの寺を猫寺と呼ぶに至れり」とある。