After Rennyo returns to the capital, he has a dream in which Sutoku becomes a vengeful ghost that leads Tameyoshi and others to attack the Hoju-ji Temple (Kyoto City), in which the Cloistered Emperor Goshirakawa resides.
蓮如は都に帰ってきてから、怨霊となった崇徳が、為義らを率いて後白河上皇の御所法住寺(京都市)を襲う夢を見る。