The Jodo Shinshu sect pressured the Meiji government to approve their use of the name 'Jodo Shinshu,' since the Edo bakufu which had prohibited them from using the name had fallen and the promised '30,000 days' had passed.
浄土真宗側ではこの裁定を下した江戸幕府が滅亡した事、そして何よりも既に約束の「3万日」が到来している事を理由に改めて「浄土真宗」の呼称を認めるように迫った。