In the course of wars to unify Japan under the Oda government to the establishment of the Edo bakufu, the temples and shrines such as Jodo Shinshu (the True Pure Land Sect of Buddhism) started to lose their autonomy.
織田政権による統一戦争から江戸幕府成立の過程で、浄土真宗をはじめとする寺社勢力は統一権力の前に自律性を失っていく。