Two hundred and seventy years after the Saint Tokudo's placement of the hoin at the Nakayama-dera Temple, when Emperor Kazan confined himself to the Mt. Nachi in Kishu Province for meditation, Kumano Gongen (the deity of the three grand shrines of Kumano) appeared in front of Emperor Kazan and gave an oracle to him that said he must revitalize the thirty-three holy places of Kannon that Saint Tokudo had designated.
徳道上人が中山寺に宝印を納めてから約270年後、花山天皇が紀州国の那智山で参籠していた折、熊野権現が姿を現し上人が定めた三十三の観音霊場を再興するように託宣を受ける。