Since then it had maintained a close relationship with the Imperial Family, but it was forced to move to the vicinity of Sokoku-ji Temple when the eighth shogun of the Muromachi bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun), Yoshimasa ASHIKAGA, constructed his mountain villa, which was later called Jisho-ji Ginkaku Temple, on the same site of Jodo-ji Temple, and subsequently Jodo-ji Temple was abolished.
その後、、皇室との関係が深かったが、室町幕府8代将軍足利義政が山荘（後の慈照寺銀閣）を建てるにあたり、相国寺付近に移されその後廃絶した。