Although Buddhist priests' meat-eating and marriage had been banned until the end of the Edo period based on the Act for Temples, the Meiji Government declared 'monks are free to eat meat and marry' and tried to make them depraved by violating the precepts of Buddhism
江戸時代までは寺院法度によって禁止されていた僧侶の肉食・妻帯を明治政府は「肉食妻帯勝手なるべし」と号令し、戒律を犯させることで僧侶を破戒させようとした。