Mongaku (c. 1139-c. 1203), born Endo Moritoo, served as a guard for Retired Emperor Toba before tragically killing the woman he secretly loved (Kesa Gozen). Ordained as a monk, he undertook extreme ascetic practices at Nachi Falls — standing under freezing water for 21 days. His intemperate demand to Retired Emperor Go-Shirakawa for funding to rebuild Jingo-ji led to exile in Izu (c. 1173), where he met fellow exile Minamoto no Yoritomo and reportedly urged him to rise against the Taira, presenting the skull of Yoritomo’s father Yoshitomo. After Yoritomo’s 1180 uprising and the founding of the Kamakura shogunate, Mongaku rebuilt Jingo-ji and Kozanji. In 1198 he was exiled again to Sado after the death of Yoritomo and died on the way to a third exile.