Since the age of eleven, he had trained himself in Daigo-ji Temple, Koyasan and soon and, in 1235 when he was thirty-five years old, he became the chief priest of Saidai-ji Temple for the first time.
11歳の時から醍醐寺、高野山などで修行し、文暦2年（1235年）、35歳の時に初めて西大寺に住した。