The first owner, the chief of a shake (family of Shinto priests serving a shrine on a hereditary basis) of Kasuga-taisha Shrine in Nara, sympathized with the reconstruction of Bujo-ji Temple on Mt. Daihi in Hanase, located in Daihizan far from Kurama of Kyoto, and it is said that Miyamaso originated in the lodge he built for worshippers visiting the Bujo-ji Temple in 1895.
奈良の春日大社の社家であった初代が、京都・鞍馬の奥の大非山にある、花背の「大悲山峰定寺」の再興に共鳴し、1895年（明治28年）に峰定寺参りの信者のために宿坊として建てたのが始まりとされている。