Okayama University
On the other hand, , also of Okayama University, who had the ancestral line of the shrine's priests (kannushi) in his family background, conjectured that the sweet was an adaptation of the , a specialty of the Miyauchi and Itakura hamlets in the (i.e., the community served by Bitchū-Takamatsu Station) which is in the environs of the shrine.