According to 'Azuma Kagami' (The Mirror of the East), in September of 1206, Rensho set a notice board in a town in Musashimuraoka predicting his death in the near future and rebirth in Gokuraku Jodo (the Amida Pure Land), but the prediction failed; he returned to Kyoto and passed away on October 25, 1208 in this thatched hut of Mt. Higashi (although there are other theories as well).
蓮生は建永元年8月（1206年）翌2月8日に極楽浄土に生まれると、予告往生の高札を武蔵村岡の市に立てたが果たせず、京都に戻り、ここ東山の草庵で、承元2年9月14日（1208年10月25日）に往生したと「吾妻鏡」にある（別説あり）。