In general, when a Kosho reached the age of 18 or 19 years old, they would collect their saved money and choose among such possibilities as buying Gokeninkabu (samurai status) or Ashigarukabu (common foot soldier status); becoming part of a merchant family (receiving economic support from them), be expelled from their temple and freed from their status as Tera-kosho; or if they became a householder with a wife and children, the marriage was neither legal nor officially recognized, therefore the children did not have samurai status and became common townspeople or farmers.
一般的には大抵十八・十九と成人する頃には、纏まった金をもらって御家人株・諸藩の足軽株を買う者、あるいは町家に囲われるなどして（援助を受けて）寺を出された（寺小姓から解放された）者、及び妻子を持って所帯を持っても、いわば公認・法律婚によるものでなく、その子供は、武家と認められずに町民・百姓となる者などがあった。