It is claimed that Ganshoni was determined to pursue Buddhism from her childhood, and once becoming a nun, she lived in Mt. Yoshino, Yamato Province, where she devoted herself to praying to the Amida Buddha and performed Jizoko (a Buddhist ritual praising the Jizo (Ksitigarbha)) on the eighth day of every month.
幼少から仏道に志し、出家後は大和国吉野山に住んで日夜念仏に専念し、毎月8日に地蔵講を行ったという。