In addition, during the days of Shonyo, Hongan-ji Temple began to intervene even more actively on behalf of their followers in the Hokuriku region by acting as a mediator in the Kaga Ikko Ikki (an uprising of Ikko sect followers in Kaga), and to strengthen the control of their followers in the region, they built a Gobo in Kanazawa City in 1546, but they did not fully succeed in their aim during Shonyo's lifetime as a result of a conflict with the Asakura clan.
また、証如の代に本願寺は、加賀一向一揆の調停という形で北陸地方の門徒集団への介入を深め、1546年には金沢市に御坊を築いて同地方における門徒の統制を強化したが、これは朝倉氏との対立もあって、証如の時代には必ずしも十分に達成されなかった。