However, in 983, a monk of Kofuku-ji Temple, Shingyo, entered the temple, revitalized it, founding 'Kankaku-ji Temple' as a branch temple of Kojima-dera Temple at the bottom of the mountain and started the Kojima school of the Shingon sect.
しかし、永観元年（983年）、興福寺の僧真興が入寺して中興し、子嶋寺の子院として山下に「観覚寺」を建立し、真言宗子嶋流を始めたという。