Older ones were created in the 1630s, and after the completion of the terauke seido (the system in which the public should be registered in any one of designated temples to prove their Buddhist faith) in 1664, Shumon Ninbetsu Aratame Cho were created nationwide.
古いものでは1630年代に作成されており、1664年に寺請制度が確立すると全国的なものとなった。