Since then, on passing by near this tree at night, the sound of koto has come to be heard out of nowhere, and before being realized, the tree had begun to be called as the tree of Kotofurunushi.
それ以来、夜にこの木の付近を通ると、どこからともなく琴の音色が聞こえるようになり、いつしかその木は琴古主の名で呼ばれるようになったのだという。