After the Meiji Restoration, each and every function held according to Buddhist rites that continued for a thousand years have stopped, the mortuary tablets of the Emperors and the Imperial families, which were called 'Sonpai,' were gathered in Sennyu-ji Temple in Kyoto, and the Emperor became estranged to Buddhism since the relationship between both was assumed to have been ended.
維新以後は一千年続いた仏式の行事はすべて停止され、「尊牌」と称された天皇や皇族の位牌は京都の泉涌寺にまとめられ、天皇家とは縁切りということになり、仏教とは疎遠となった。