The fires of the Onin War burned down his house, so he evacuated to Kaju-ji Temple, Kurama-dera Temple, or somewhere else in 1470, but he was burned out of even those places by the fires, and his family collection of documents and diaries was also lost in the fire (incidentally, the Kajuji line, whose direct descendant is the KANROJI family, was a line that many family members assumed practical work, and they put the documents and diaries on record in detail out of necessity, so people called them 'Family of the Diary.')
応仁の乱による戦火で自邸が焼失したため、文明(日本)2年（1470年）に勧修寺・鞍馬寺等へ避難するが、それらも焼け出され、家蔵の文書・日記類も焼失した（甘露寺家を嫡流とする勧修寺流は実務の家柄であり、必要上から記録を克明につけており「日記の家」とも称された）。