When his wife, Nunoshihime no mikoto knew her husband's death, she went down to Oshu, leaving the capital, and single-mindedly longed for her late husband, devoting herself in prayer to console the spirit of the mikoto until she died.
夫の死を知った妃の渟熨斗姫命（ぬのしひめのみこと）は、都を離れてこの地で御跡を慕い、朝夕ひたすら命の御霊を慰めつつ生涯を終えたという。