Then, he traveled to the west to establish Eiho-ji Temple on Mt. Kokei in Mino Province, and in 1330, he was invited by Sadafuji NIKAIDO, the Governor of Kai Province, to found Erin-ji Temple in Makisho, working as the first person to edify Kai people since the immigrant Zen priest Doryu RANKEI in the mid Kamakura period.
西遊して美濃国に虎渓山永保寺を開き、元徳2年（1330年）には甲斐守護の二階堂貞藤に招かれ牧庄内に恵林寺を創建し、鎌倉中期の渡来禅僧蘭渓道隆以来になる甲斐の教化に務めた。