During Kennyo's time, the Hongan-ji Temple sect tried to take control of the Ikko uprisings by their followers, which had been in progress since his father's era, while at the same time cultivating alliances with relatives of the shogunal deputy, the Hosokawa family and the Kyo no Kuge, or court nobles.
顕如の時代、本願寺教団は、父の時代以来進めてきた門徒による一向一揆の掌握に務める一方、管領の細川家や京の公家との縁戚関係を深めた。