He supposedly hit kin, kei, inverted copper or iron bell shaped like a bowl (sounded when reciting sutras) just before his death and Kassatsu, and passed away after Junen joju (ten invocations bringing about completion) ("Shui Ojo-den").
臨終においては磬を打って合殺し、十念成就の後に往生を遂げた（『拾遺往生伝』）と伝えられている。