The eleven-storied stone pagoda built on the island that mourns a courageous young man is the oldest in the prefecture with a known date.
Long ago, a warrior from Omi named Fujiwara Masamichi was returning from a pilgrimage to Miyajima in Aki when he docked his ship at this island and accidentally dropped his family's treasured sword into the sea. Masamichi asked the locals to retrieve the sword. A young man offered to take on the important task of protecting the pride of his hometown, jumped into the sea, and emerged with the sword in his mouth, but his leg had already been bitten off by a shark. He died after handing the sword over to the young man. Masamichi was so saddened by this that he built an eleven-story stone tower on Bentenjima as a memorial for the deceased.
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