In influential temples and shrines at that time, many monks became corrupt, some monks became a monk-soldier, or an armed monk called the jinin (associates of Shinto shrines), would have relationships with girls or commit acts of burglary.
当時の有力寺社には僧兵、神人と呼ばれる武装した下級の僧侶、神職を抱え、女人に手を出し強盗紛いの行為に及ぶなど堕落していた。