After he returned to Japan, he lived cloistered away in a thatched hut he made at Kinoshita (the present-day Kamigyo Ward, Kyoto City) in Rakusai (west of the capital of Kyoto).
道正は日本に帰ると世俗を離れ、洛西の木下（現在の京都市上京区）に草庵を建てて篭居した。