At the time when the Minister SOGA no Umako became ill, he hoped to cure his disease through Buddhism, which led to the allowance of the three nuns to enter the nunhood again and pray for his cure by an imperial sanction.
大臣蘇我馬子が病気になったときに馬子は仏法による病気平癒を願い、勅許により3人は再び寺院に入って尼僧となり病気平癒を祈願した。