Those new religions conducted missionary work in Edo and formed Fujiko confraternities, and some such groups became too big to be ignored by the Edo shogunate government, which eventually announced directives to prohibit formation of Fujiko confraternities repeatedly.
新宗教は江戸で布教を行い富士講を組織して、江戸幕府にとっても無視できない規模になることもあり、幕府が富士講禁制の町触を出すこともしばしばであった。