There is a legend that she left a will forbidding the burial of her body after her death, the body was left on the street for the birds and animals to eat to prevent them from starvation, then a painter was ordered to paint the picture of how maggots decomposed the body and nearly turned into a skeleton.
鳥や獣の飢を救うため、自分の死後に自らの死骸を埋葬することを禁じて道ばたに放置させ、それが腐乱してウジがわき、白骨化していく過程を絵師に描かせたという伝説がある。