Jisha fushin aimed to construct, repair and manage jisha (temples and shrines) and specifically, it included holding festivals or fairs along the sando (the road approaching a temple), inside the precincts, or in the temple town; they also collected a portion of the sales from street vendors as rent for their stalls, proceeds from tomikuji (lottery), precursor to today's takarakuji, and terasen (fee charged to a gambling salon) as rent from gambling halls in the days when gambling held by common people was legal.
-寺社の造営、修繕や維持管理を目的としたもので、具体的には参道や境内、門前町において祭りや縁日を開催し、出店者から売り上げの一部を、場所代として提供してもらう事や、宝くじの元となった富くじの収益や、庶民が自ら行う賭博が合法であった時代には、賭博開帳の場所代としての寺銭などが挙げられる。