Looking at the past, Somin Shorai was founded in Susano-jinja Shrine (Fukuyama city) in itsubun (a composition previously existed but doesn't exist now) of "Bingo-koku Fudoki" (regional gazetteers of Bingo Province) quoted in "Shaku Nihongi;" an annotated text of the Nihon Shoki, (Kanekata URABE, during the middle of the Kamakura period).
古くは『釈日本紀』（卜部兼方　鎌倉時代中期）に引用された『備後国風土記』逸文の素盞嗚神社(福山市)に見える。