MONONOBE no Moriya and NAKATOMI no Katsumi (from the clan supportive of Shinto) believed that an epidemic started spreading due to having faith in God of a foreign country, and thus asked for its prohibition.
物部守屋と中臣勝海（中臣氏は神祇を祭る氏族）は蕃神（異国の神）を信奉したために疫病が起きたと奏上し、これの禁止を求めた。