The town was founded on March 22, 2005 by the merger of the towns of Miwa and Yasu, both from Asakura District.
This festival has its origin in 1802, when people plagued by an epidemic in Tobata Village of Chikuzen prayed to Suga-taijin to disperse the plague, their prayers were answered and all of the villagers with plague were cured.
Along the Buzen and Chikuzen coasts, Yoshitake was also in numerous amounts of battles.