They then sealed it in a box shaped funerary urn made of stone, 石櫃, buried this in the ground and built what became Hashirimizu Jinja on top.   

The ship then set sail but quickly encountered a violent storm which showed no signs of abating, and left the ship unable to either advance or return to shore. Ototachibana quickly divined that the malevolent kami of the sea had to be placated and that the only way this could be done was for her to offer up her life. This she did, with a poem on her lips; the storm abated, allowing Yamato Takeru to successfully prosecute his mission. The stone monument bearing her death poem was erected in 1910 and  is very interesting in its own right. The calligraphy is from the hand of Princess Takeda Masako, the sixth daughter and tenth child of Emperor Meiji, and the monument was sponsored by six leading naval and military figures of the time, including four full admirals, one vice-admiral, one  lieutenant general, and one civilian, a privy councillor. Of the full admirals Tōgō Heihachirō and Nogi Marusuke are the best known.