However, the domain, which wanted to promote new land development, detained Kakurin while he was in Edo (the current Tokyo) and incarcerated him as a laic figure popularly called Kansuke, and Kakurin died in prison.
新田開発を進めたい藩は、江戸に出ていた覚林を捕縛、僧侶ではなく俗名勘助という名目で獄中の人とし、覚林は獄中にて獄死した。