Regarding the Kuroda-no-sho estates in Iga Province and Koden-sho in Yamato Province, there were disputes with agents and priests in the Saikon-do Hall (An image hall situated to the west of a pagoda in temple grounds) however with the political strength of the priest administrators and his eloquent speech he won the upper hand and his opponents called him the 'wayward priest of the southern capital.'
伊賀国黒田荘や大和国高殿荘をめぐり、目代（もくだい）や興福寺西金堂衆などと争ったが、僧綱を背景にした政治力と流暢な弁舌で有利に決着させ、相手側から「南京の悪僧」とまでいわれた。