When he visited Inaba-do, a monk appeared to him in a dream and told him 'In your previous life, you were a monk from Kumano named Rengebo who was reincarnated as an emperor in reward for his good deeds.
そこで因幡堂に参詣すると、上皇の夢に僧が現れ「上皇の前世は熊野の蓮花坊という僧侶で、仏道修行の功徳によって天皇に生まれ変わった。