Therefore, the government proposed that enshrined god should be changed to Susanoo and the name of the shrine should be renamed 'Shoko-jinja Shrine' after the name of the place, but local residents rejected it.
そのため、祭神をスサノオに、社名を地名からとった「小綱神社」に改めるように言ったが、地元住民はそれを拒んだという。