Kawara-dera Temple was rebuilt in the Kamakura Period, but it burnt down once again at the end of the Muromachi Period after being struck by lightning, and it was never able to regain the scale it once had.
川原寺は鎌倉時代にはいったん再興されるが、室町時代末期に雷火で再び焼失し、以後はかつての規模を取り戻すことはなかった。