With the exception of the later years spent in exile, Honen's teaching took place on this site from his establishment of the Pure Land Sect at age 43 to his death at age 80; making a Pure Land sect center.
ここでの法然の布教活動は、流罪となった晩年の数年間を除き、浄土宗を開宗する43歳から生涯を閉じた80歳までの長きにわたり、浄土宗の中心地となった。