To this villa Kanezane then invited Honen to come and preach Buddhist sermons there; the villa became the historic spot where Kanezane took the tonsure and became a priest, with Honen as his Kaishi (a priest who initiates the new believer into the Buddhist priesthood).
ここに法然を招き、法談をし、法然を戒師として兼実が剃髪出家した旧跡である。