Afterward, he resigned from the post, but was again appointed as Gojiso in 1271, and conducted an invocation for Ikoku Kobuku (to protect and suppress a foreign country using the power of God or Buddha) in the middle of increasingly intense crisis of the Mongolian Expeditions against Japan.
その後、一旦辞退したが1271年（文永8年）再び護持僧に任じられ、元寇の危機感が高まる中で異国降伏の祈祷を行っている。