When scholars emerged at the end of the Edo period claiming that the tomb at Hoju-ji Temple was not that of Emperor Goshirakawa, it is said that the head priest at the time dug under the tomb and discovered a cist containing the remains of the Emperor just as the records described.
幕末に法住寺陵が後白河天皇の御陵ではないと唱えた学者が現れたとき、当時の住持が御陵の真下を掘ったところ記録どおりに天皇の遺骨を納めた石櫃が見つかったと言われている。