Entering the Meiji period, due to movements of separating Buddhism from Shintoism and of abolishing Buddhism, it became permitted to eat meat, and sukiyaki (thin slices of beef, cooked with various vegetables in a table-top cast-iron pan) appeared.
明治になると、神仏分離、廃仏毀釈により肉食が解禁されすき焼きなどが登場した。