As the ritsuryosei waned, however, regulations and laws that had controlled Buddhism such as "Soni ryo" (Regulations for Monks and Nuns) lost substance, and regulations on repairmen and maintenance subsidies also lost any meaning.
だが、律令制が弛緩すると、僧尼令をはじめとする仏教統制の法制は形骸化し、一方で修理料や燈分料規定も空文化するようになった。