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In the Showa period(正和年間)-1312〜1317-, four huge and well-built stone pagodas were erected in the lower Kakogawa River area, -A thirteen-tiered stone tower in Fukuden-ji Temple (福田寺十三重石塔), a houto pagoda in Jyouraku-ji Temple(常楽寺宝塔), a Gorin-to Pagoda in Houon-ji Temple(報恩寺五輪塔)　and a kasatouba stupa in Hokke-san Ichijyou-ji Temple-. I demonstrated that　Monkan-bo-Syuon(文観房殊音) led the erection those stone pagodas and that the party that invested in the erection was the Daikaku-ji-to lineage(大覚寺統). Still the mystery remains　─　The mystery of whether the main investor　was the emperor emeritus Gouda(後宇多 上皇) or the crown prince Takaharu(皇太子尊治親王). Last November, I investigated “the Houon-ji Temple pilgrimage mandala”(報恩寺参詣曼荼羅）: Dates from the Muromachi Period. a Gorin-to Pagoda in Houon-ji Temple. I confirmed that the Gorin-to Pagoda in Houon-ji Temple is depictured in the mandala, and a sticky note stating " A stone pagoda built at the request of the emperor emeritus Gouda"(後宇多院殿御願石） was stuck near the Gorin-to Pagoda.　It turns out that the main investor of those stone pagodas was the emperor emeritus Gouda,