Two months later, she entered Daikaku-ji Temple as a priest to be tonsured by Tengai, a monk of Tenryu-ji temple, and sequestered herself from the world to live in a hermitage in Saga called Itto-an (literally, a hermitage of one lamp).
その二ヵ月後に大覚寺に入寺し、天龍寺の僧天外のもとで剃髪し、嵯峨一灯庵に幽棲した。