However, during the middle ages, both of the sects which had branched from the Jodokyo and featured the chanting of the same Buddhist invocation were mixed up, and both were further confused with the Jishu sect.
だが、中世において同じ念仏を唱える浄土教系宗派であった両派が混同され、更に時衆などとも一緒くたに考えられるようになっていった。