In Koya-san Mountain at that time, there were many lower rank priests who were not very religious and thought that being a priest was a tool to live and higher rank priests who were blinded with power.
当時の高野山には、僧侶は食べる手段と割り切った信心の薄い下僧と、権力に眼を眩ませる上僧が蠢く有り様であった。