The temple became particularly famous for blessing those seeking treatment for eye diseases after the eye disease of the daughter of Hidetada TOKUGAWA, second Shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate, instantly recovered when she prayed to Yakushi Nyorai for her eye disease to be cured.
2代将軍徳川秀忠の娘が罹った眼の病気が当薬師如来に回復祈願したところ、たちまち回復したことから、特に眼病治癒のご利益に関して有名になった。