The Meiji government adopted a policy of maintaining the shaku-and-kan measuring system (length by the shaku and weight by the kan) in 1870, but with the Meiji Weights and Measures Control Law in 1875, a decision was made to abolish Masu-za and to leave the manufacture and sale of masu to the private sector with calibration conducted by the government.
明治政府は明治3年（1870年）に尺貫法を維持して京枡をそのまま用いる方針を採ったが、明治8年（1875年）の度量衡取締条例によって枡座を廃止して検定は政府が行い、製造・販売は民間に任せる方針を打ち出した。