His easy-to-understand edification through waka (traditional Japanese poems of thirty-one syllables) and wasan (Buddhist verses), and nenbutsu kanjin to all people regardless of his or her belief or disbelief, cleanliness or uncleanliness were a big opportunity for Buddhism to become religion of the common people.
和歌や和讃によるわかりやすい教化や信不信・浄不浄を問わない念仏勧進は、仏教を庶民のものとする大いなる契機となった。