Yagoro YAMASHITA, a merchant of Shibushi port, offered to transport them to Kinai region at the same charge as transporting rice; he said he had received an oracle from Kannon (Buddhist deity of mercy).
このような中、志布志港の商人山下弥五郎が観音様のお告げを受けたとして、米を運ぶのと同じ運賃で畿内までの輸送を買って出ることになった。