In a year of drought, the people in the mountain community climbed up the mountain prayed for rain by chanting "The god of the mountain likes flags. Let's bring flags to the god to ask for rain."
旱魃の年には岳郷によって「嶽の神様幟がお好き、幟持てこい、雨降らせ」と唱和して雨乞いの登山が行われた。