After the mid-Edo period, it has been often worshipped by women and produced as the main image for ceremonies such as a ceremony to wait for the rising moon and that of nenbutsu (Buddhist prayer).
江戸時代中期以降は、女性の信仰の対象になることが多くなり、月待供養、念仏供養などの主尊として数多く造られるようになった。