The first head priest in the prosperous Chuko period was Buzan school Noke, Shuzen MORINO, and the head priests until that time were mostly heads from Daigo-ji Temple or Ninna-ji Temple, it was a tradition in Negoro-ji Temple to install a Gakuto other than the head priest from external temples.
中興第一世座主は豊山派能化、守野秀善が就いたが、これまでの座主は醍醐寺または仁和寺の門跡が就任することが多く、そうした外部の座主とは別に根来寺では学頭を立てるのが慣例であった。