During the Bunsei era in the latter part of the Edo period, this daikon was given to Konkaikomyo-ji Temple in Kurotani district in the east of Shogoin district, as an offering from Owari Province; when a farmer in Shogoin district was given the daikon and grew it for years, the shape somehow changed to a round shape.
江戸時代後期の文政年間、聖護院の東の黒谷という場所に金戒光明寺という寺院が在り、この寺院に尾張から大根が奉納され、聖護院の農家がその大根を貰いうけ、何年も育てていると、何故か丸くなってしまったと言う。