It is said that the body of Yorimasa who died in a battle at Uji was not buried here, because the Tanba Yada-go Village was of all his territories the nearest to Uji.
宇治で戦死した頼政の遺骸がここに埋められた理由として、丹波矢田郷が彼の領地の中で最も宇治に近かったからと言われているが