It is well known that the gate was set fire in Otenmon Incident in 866, but the gate was also lost many times and had never been reconstructed after it was destroyed in a conflagration in 1177.
貞観8年（866年）、応天門の変で放火されたことで有名であるが、その他にもたびたび失われ、治承元年（1177年）の大火で失われて以降、再建されなくなった。