From the early modern period to the modern era, the garden was used as a place where the chief priest secluded or guests from foreign countries were treated and it played a major role as a detached landholding of Higashi Hongan-ji Temple.
以後、近世・近代を通じて門首の隠退所や外賓の接遇所として用いられるなど、東本願寺の飛地境内地として重要な機能を果たした。