Since he restored Emperor Saga's imperial villa, the Daikaku-ji Temple, and ruled the cloistered government from there, it was called Daikaku-ji dono, later on that name represented Emperor Kameyama and Gouda's Imperial line.
嵯峨天皇の離宮であった大覚寺を再興しそこで院政を執ったため、大覚寺殿と称され、のちには亀山・後宇多の皇統を指す語にもなった。