The bakufu was subsidizing the continuing construction of the tower gate at Nanzen-ji Temple proposed by chief priest of Tenryu-ji Temple Shunoku Myoha, but when Jozan Sozen, a priest at Nanzen-ji Temple, criticized Tendai in his book for his part in a feud between Nanzen-ji Temple and Onjo-ji Temple, the Mt. Hiei side reacted vehemently demanding that Imperial Court sentence Jozan Sozen be banished and the tower gate be destroyed.
天竜寺住職春屋妙葩の発議で進められてた南禅寺の楼門建造を幕府は助成していたが、南禅寺と園城寺の抗争から南禅寺僧定山祖禅が著作において天台を非難すると、叡山側がこれに猛抗議して朝廷に定山祖禅の流罪と楼門の破却を求めた。