At that time, he studied under the Sanron Sect and Hosso Sect of the Nanto rokushu (six sects of Nanto) but eventually became a passionate devotee of the Amida Buddha and would not fail to recite the Nembutsu (Buddhist invocation) ten thousand times every day.
当初、南都六宗のうちの三論宗、法相宗を学ぶが、やがて熱烈な阿弥陀信者となり、日課一万遍の念仏を欠かさぬようになる。