In response, monks in the Mt. Koya, who professed to be the mainstream of the Shingonshu sect, regarded Monkan as dangerous and in 1335 they oppressed the Tachikawa-ryu school on a big scale.
これに対し、真言宗の本流をもって任ずる高野山の僧らは文観を危険視し、1335年（建武2年）に大規模な弾圧を加えた。