In the Muromachi period, the power of Enryaku-ji Temple increasingly became big, and it was successively set on fire by powerful people such as Yoshinori ASHIKAGA and Masamoto HOSOKAWA.
室町時代に入ると延暦寺の勢力はますます大きくなり、足利義教や細川政元ら権力者による焼き討ちが相次ぐ。