In 1174, he was appointed as the Gon dai sozu (the provisional second-highest position, upper grade, of priest) due to his learning of the kiuho (service to pray for rain) at the Saishoko (the annual five days of lectures on the Konkomyo-saishoo Sutra); and in 1177 he inherited, from Myoun, the Kechimyaku (lineage) of isshin sangan (threefold contemplation in a single mind).
1174年（承安(日本)4年）には最勝講で祈雨法を修して権大僧都に任じられ、1177年（治承元年）には明雲から一心三観の血脈を相承した。