On October 5, 1817 he painted at the Hongan-ji Nagoya Betsuin in Nagoya the "Big Daruma" on paper, measuring 18x10.8 metres, impressing many onlookers.
Although the original was destroyed in 1945, promotional handbills from that time survived and are preserved at the Nagoya City Museum.
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In 1874, close to the temple, a medical training centre, the predecessor of Nagoya University's School of Medicine, was set up for medical research, practice and education.
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In the early Edo period it was moved to the current location at the time of the construction of Nagoya Castle.
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The shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu founded Higashi Hongan-ji in 1602 by splitting it from Nishi Hongan-ji in order to diminish the power of the Shin sect of Buddhism.