 Nitta Yoshisada stopped at Koyurugi Jinja in 1333 to pray for victory.Having won, he came back to offer a sword and some money to the shrine, with which the "shinden" was later restored.The shrine used to be called from the name of Koshigoe's tutelary spirit (), but its name was changed during the shinbutsu bunri (the forced separation of Buddhism and Shinto in temples and shrines) in the Meiji era.