But Kensei, who was his successor, son, and a renowned great scholar of the sect along with Rengo, was persecuted by Renjun's Hossu (the head of a Buddhist sect) empowerment policy and excommunicated.
だが、後を継いだ息子顕誓は蓮悟と並んで宗派を代表する碩学の一人と称えられながら、その蓮淳による法主強化政策による弾圧（大小一揆）によって破門となった。