The Nichiren sect started to spread in urban areas while the monk Nisshin began proselytizing work in Kyoto, and the townspeople combined forces into large groups of believers and struggling with the secular Doikki (land-based bands of peasants).
都市部では日蓮宗が広まり、京都では日親が布教活動を行い、町衆は信徒的な団結力で土一揆に対して戦う。