According to the chronicle of Nobunaga, Nobunaga Koki, an elder Jodoshu sect monk Reiyo Gyokunen came from the Kanto region, eastern Japan, up to the Kamigata region, the Kyoto-Osaka area, during the middle of May and preached Jodoshu sect Buddhism in the town of Azuchi.
信長公記などによると、5月中旬、関東の浄土宗の霊誉玉念（れいよぎょくねん）という長老が上方へ出てきて安土の町で説法をしていた。