However, that construction plan was canceled due to some threatening events such as consecutive forest fires around Shigaraki no miya Palace, and the Great Buddha started to be built at the present location of the Daibutsu-den Hall of Todai-ji Temple at the same time with the return of the capital to the Heijo-kyo.
しかし、紫香楽宮の周辺で山火事が相次ぐなど不穏な出来事があったために造立計画は中止され、都が平城京へ戻るとともに、現在、東大寺大仏殿がある位置での造立が開始された。