Although he was appointed to Daisozu hoin (a high-ranking priest of Buddhism), he provoked antipathy because he had strongly claimed to tighten official discipline of the temple, and returned to secular life in 1839.
大僧都法印に任ぜられたが、寺中の綱紀粛清をつよく唱えたために反感を買い、1839年還俗。