The temple reached the height of its prosperity by accepting the Kamakura shogunate's becoming believers in Buddhism but came to decline as it was burned by the Southern Court in conflicts at the end of the Kamakura period.
鎌倉将軍の帰依を得て隆盛したが、鎌倉時代末期の戦乱により南朝(日本)側に焼かれ衰えた。