During the time in which the temple was situated in Kyoto Shibutani (from the latter half of the 1300s to the first half of the 1400s), it was far more powerful than Hongan-ji Temple of the same sect, Jodo shin shu (True Pure Land Sect).
京都渋谷（しぶたに）に寺基があった頃（1300年代後半～1400年代前半）は同じ浄土真宗の本願寺を大いにしのぐ勢力があった。