During the relocation of the capital to Fukuhara in 1180, Taira no Kiyomori restored the temple and positioned it as one of the religious centers of the new capital. Tradition relates that he took the tonsure here in 1181, and after his death from fever in Fukuhara that year, his remains were buried at the temple. The "Hei-Shokoku-byo" mausoleum still standing in the precincts has been transmitted as Kiyomori's grave, an important historic site of Kobe that conveys the dramatic history of the Genpei War to the present.