In the pre-modern ages, it also became the kigan-sho of the Tokugawa clan (the temple for the Tokugawa clan to pray) as it successfully prayed for Yoshimune TOKUGAWA (the 8th shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate) to recover from his illness.
近世に、徳川吉宗の病気平癒を祈願し江戸幕府の徳川氏祈願所となる。