Despite hanging Buddhist pictures and sutras on the pillar, the visitations continued and although they finally stopped when the hole was sealed and pierced with an arrow from a battlefield, it was said that at this time he suffered his downfall.
柱に経典、仏画を掛けても怪異は止まず、征矢を刺して穴を塞ぐと怪異はようやく止んだが、やがて、左遷の禍が起きたという。