However, it is said that the mound was threatened with destruction during the Meiji period, which tormented the people living around it; therefore, the Nue-zuka was restored in haste.
しかし、明治時代に入って塚が取り壊されかけ、鵺の怨霊が近くに住む人々を悩ませ、慌てて塚が修復されたという。