However, by the end of Kamakura period to the period of the Northern and Southern Courts (Japan), as a counteraction to the Shinto theologies by monks, Ise Shinto and Yoshida Shinto, which advocate the Shinponbutsujaku setsu, which claims that god is the true form and Buddha is the temporary form, emerged, and became the mainstream religious principle of Shinto in the Edo period.
しかし、鎌倉時代末期から南北朝時代_(日本)になると、僧侶による神道説に対する反動から、逆に、神こそが本地であり仏は仮の姿であるとする神本仏迹説をとなえる伊勢神道や吉田神道が現れ、江戸時代には神道の主流派の教義となっていく。