"Sarashina Nikki" (Sarashina Diary), a literature work in the Heian period, wrote that some people in those days believed the personnel affairs for the following year in the Imperial court were determined by the deity of Mt. Fuji.
平安時代の文学の『更級日記』には、富士山の神が、朝廷の次の年の除目（人事）を決めると当時の一部の人々には思われていた記録がある。