The area around Kawaramachi-dori Street was formerly the bank of the Kamo-gawa River, and served as a place in which the bodies of those who died in conflicts and natural disasters as well as the executed were abandoned.
河原町通周辺はかつて鴨川の河原で、戦災や天災による死者や刑死者の屍が打ち捨てられる遺棄葬の場であった。