Kokujin (village heads) and Dogo (powerful families) converted to Shinshu and joined the village people who were discontent with the system with complicated and multiple lordship in the end of the middle ages, and uprising called "Ikko-Ikki" were staged throughout the nation by united Ikko Shu followers from the whole county or province.
中世末の複雑な支配権の並存する体制に不満を持つ村々に国人・土豪が真宗に改宗することで加わり、「一向一揆」と呼ばれる一郡や一国の一向宗徒が一つに団結した一揆が各地で起こるようになる。