He was also known as a priest of Tachikawa school (Mikkyo, Esoteric Buddhism), the Shingon sect, which was considered as a heretical religion, and he was a priest who renounced the world and relieved the poor with Enkan (Echin).
邪教とされていた真言宗立川流(密教)の僧としても知られ、円観（恵鎮）とともに遁世僧で貧民救済なども行っている。