It is an important point for safe sea crossings to the continent, and has received significant orders from the central government since ancient times.

It is the only Myojin Taisha in Hizen Province, and was previously classified as Kokuhei Chusha due to renovations during the Meiji era.

[9] This petrification lore of Sayohime appears to be of later development, with its earliest attestation identified as renga poet Bontōan [ja]'s Sodeshita shū (c. Ōei era, late 14th to early 15th century).

[4][5][6] The claim regarding her petrification on this island is given in a late account of the origin of this undershrine, preserved in the 19th-century document called the Matsura komonjo (松浦古文書) (written during the Bunka era).

[15] It states that the lady did not stop at the Scarf-Waving Peak bidding farewell, but she continued to a spot[b] from whose vantage point she beheld an island nearby.