Soseki passed away at the temple and Takauji ASHIKAGA ranked it as one of the Jissetsu (ten most important temples of the Rinzai Sect, second in significance to the Gozan) before it was designated one of the Gozan (five most highly ranked Zen temples) by Kanrei (Shogun's Deputy) Yoriyuki HOSOKAWA during the time of Yoshimitsu ASHIKAGA but it was to be reclassified as one of the Jissetsu due to Yoriyuki's defeat in the Koryaku Coup.
疎石はこの寺で没し、足利尊氏はこの寺を十刹の1つに列格させ、足利義満の時代に管領細川頼之の働きかけで五山に加えられたが、康暦の政変で頼之が失脚した事により十刹に戻された。