Following her instructions, he put away fame and fortune and chose the way to seek truth with nenbutsu-zanmai (mental absorption in the nenbutsu) in a secluded life at the Eshin-in Temple in Yokawa (the present building was the former Betto Daishi-do Hall in Sakamoto Satobo which had been removed and rebuilt on the present location).
その諫言に従い、名利の道を捨てて、横川の恵心院（現在のものは、坂本里坊にあった別当大師堂を移して再建したもの。）に隠棲し、念仏三昧の求道の道を選ぶ。