Onmyoji around country were also active and with the Akaboshi family of the Katsuragisan shinzoku linage going back before the Nara Period, the Kuga family, the samurai onmyoji Ogasawara ryu of the Seiwa-Minamoto family lineage, the regional Saga family, Hachiman ryu, Heki family (日直家), the Onitsura family, Inasa-Nagura family (引佐名倉家), the Takashi family of the Enshu yamazumi lineage, the Nakao family of Shikoku and various families of the Azumi lineage taking the lead, they transformed Onmyodo by repeatedly blending regional folk customs of various locations with Onmyodo and it stayed in fashion as a popular faith among common people throughout the Edo Period.
各地の陰陽師の活動も活発で、奈良時代以前から続く葛城山神族系の赤星家や玖珂家、武家陰陽師である清和源氏系小笠原流、地域派生の嵯峨家、八幡流、日直家、鬼貫家、引佐名倉家、遠州山住系高橋家、四国中尾家、安曇系各家などを中心に、各地の民俗との融合を繰り返して変化し、江戸時代を通じて民間信仰として民衆の間でかなりの流行を見せた。