Later, when his younger fellow monk Nichigobo (Namyobo) moved to Jozai-ji Temple (located in present-day Gifu City) in Imaizumi, Atsumi District, Mino Province, to become a chief priest, Horenbo left the Myokaku-ji Temple to return to a secular life and called himself Shogoro (or Kankuro). |
その後、法弟であり学友の日護房(南陽房)が美濃国厚見郡今泉の常在寺 (岐阜市)へ住職として赴くと、法蓮房もそれを契機に還俗して庄五郎(庄九郎とも)と名乗った。 |