Because of the national seclusion in the Edo period and the anti-Buddhism movement in the Meiji period, interactions with overseas countries broke off, but there were a few cases where Buddha's sariras were given as a result of interactions with the countries of Theravada Buddhism such as Sri Lanka and Thailand after 1900, at the end of the Meiji period.
江戸時代の鎖国、明治の廃仏毀釈などで海外との交流は途絶えるが、明治末期の1900年以降、スリランカ、タイ王国などの上座部仏教圏との交流から仏舎利を贈与された例がいくつかある。