Even during this period, he often visited Kamakura at the requests of Yoritsune KUJO and Tsunetoki HOJO, who were the Shikken (regents to the shogunate), and spent days to go and return between Kamakura and the Onjo-ji Temple.
この間にも九条頼経や執権北条経時の要請を受けて度々鎌倉に下り、鎌倉と園城寺を往復する生涯を送る事になった。