Honen's residence stood in the vicinity of where Chion-in Temple's Seishi Hall now stands and was called both 'Yoshimizu-gobo' and 'Otani-zenbo' after the name of the area at the time.
法然の住房は現在の知恩院勢至堂付近にあり、当時の地名を取って「吉水御坊」「大谷禅坊」などと称されていた。