People who died while sailing the waters near Sakoshi from things such as accidents or illnesses were buried in this graveyard, referred to as yosozanmai (“graveyard of those from other places”) and funazanmai (“graveyard of seafarers”). According to the death records and associated documents that remain at Sakoshi’s Myodo-ji Temple, from Hoei 3 (1706) to Bunkyu 2 (1862), 134 people from 27 different provinces were buried there. These provinces included Tanegashima in Satsuma, which was to the south of Sakoshi; Tsushima, which was to the west; Ise, Owari, and Izu, which were to the east; and Tango, Echigo, and Dewa, which were along the Japan Sea. Now, there are around 70 gravestones still remaining, and they are arranged around a stone Jizo statue. Because the cemetery represents Sakoshi’s prosperity during the early modern period and some of the burial customs of the time, it was designated as a Historic Site of Hyogo Prefecture in Heisei 3 (1991).