After exclaustration, Fujiwara clan members became Shinto priests for the Kasuga-Taisha Shrine, becoming ujigami (guardian gods) and were syncretized with the Kofuku-ji Temple; they then attained the status of the Tosho Family as an independent family branch.
還俗後、氏神であり興福寺と神仏習合されていた春日大社の神官に転じた藤原氏出身の者は、別家・独立との扱いを受けて堂上格として認められた。