Legend has it that Inuoumono was the reason of the down fall of the Kamakura bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun) because the last head of the Tokuso Family of the Hojo clan (Soke, [head of family, originator]), Takatoki HOJO, devoted himself in dogfights and Inuoumono then neglected the politics.
北条氏得宗家（宗家）最後の当主北条高時が闘犬や犬追物にはまって政治を省みなくなり、鎌倉幕府滅亡の原因となったとする伝説がある。