This ban was imposed partly because there had been an attempt to organize the shrine system through Shintoism--the ideological background of the restoration of the imperial regime--and partly because there had been a movement of Bunmei kaika (cultural enlightenment) that negated local, traditional and secular manners and customs.
このような禁止措置の背景として、復古的な神道観による神社制度の組織化によるものである一方、文明開化による旧来の習俗文化を否定する動きの影響も伺える。