Especially, the crisis in the foreign relations caused by the Mongolian Expeditions against Japan forced the imperial court authority and the bakufu authority to protect the temples and shrines; besides, supported by tenjin sokan setsu (theory of correlation between Heaven and man), tokusei (debt cancellation edict) issued by the cloistered emperor's government or the bakufu provided various kinds of Jisha Kogyo.
特に元寇による対外的危機は公武権力を寺社保護に向かわせ、天人相関説も相まって院政や幕府における徳政において各種寺社興行の規定が設けられた。