When Baisao was seventy, he returned to his native province under the law that one had to return once every ten years, and himself requested that he be allowed to return to secular life, obtaining permission to do so from the provincial authorities.
70歳の時、10年に一度帰郷するという法度によって故国に戻り、自ら還俗を乞い、国人の許しを得る。