After the restoration of the Imperial rule, the Meiji government emphasized on Shinto as a Japanese indigenous religious belief and employed opinions from scholars of Japanese classical literature to create a principal of the separation of Buddhism and Shintoism.
王政復古後、明治は神道を日本固有の信仰として重視し、国学者勢力の意見を入れて神仏分離の方針を打ち出すことになる。