In December 918, during the scholar of Chinese literature Kiyotsura MIYOSHI's funeral procession over this bridge, his son, who had been a disciplinant in Kumano Sanzan (a set of three Grand Shrines located in the southeastern part of the Kii Mountain Range), hurriedly returned at the news of his father's death, and gave prayers to his father while throwing himself over the coffin, when a peal of thunder temporarily resurrected Kiyotsura and they embraced each other.
延喜18年（918年)12月、漢学者・三善清行の葬列がこの橋を通った際、父の死を聞いて急ぎ帰ってきた熊野三山で修行中の子・浄蔵が棺にすがって祈ると、清行が雷鳴とともに一時生き返り、父子が抱き合ったという。