However, volume 11 of "Konjaku Monogatari shu" (Anthology of Tales from the Past) says the following regarding the origins of the place name Kasagi and the carved Miroku image at Kasagi-dera Temple.
一方、『今昔物語集』巻11には笠置の地名の起源と笠置寺の弥勒磨崖仏の由来について、次のように伝えている。