With the decline in the power of the Tang dynasty which had governed China, the dispatch of the Japanese envoy to the Tang dynasty had been suspended since the middle of the ninth century (officially, envoys to Tang China were abolished in 894), which resulted in the appearance of the Kokufu Bunka (indigenous Japanese culture).
9世紀半ば以後、中国を支配してきた唐の衰退に伴って遣唐使が派遣されることが無くなり（894年に正式に廃止）、代わって日本独自の文化（国風文化）が登場するようになった。