When he got smallpox, Mosuke went to Kashima Inari Shrine (the present-day Kaguwashi-jinja shrine) at Kashima village (the present-day Kashima, Yodogawa Ward, Osaka City) to pray for his complete recovery from the illness, and Mosuke received a divine message that Akinari would live until 68, and after that Akinari was also taken to visits to the shrine.
疱瘡を病んだとき、茂助は、加島村（現、大阪市淀川区加島）の加島稲荷（現、香具波志神社）に本復を祈願し、68歳までの存命を告げられ、以降、秋成も同社への参詣を怠らなかった。