Court nobles, families that owned and resided in temples, as well as samurai families, would make an incantation and pray at Ise-jingu Shrine which as dedicated to Amaterasu Omikami (the Sun Goddess), wars during the medieval period devastated the shrine precinct, leading to the complete destruction of the shrine, such that the deity could not be transferred to a new shrine building, which was supposed to be performed once every prescribed number of years.
天照大神の神社として公家・寺家・武家が加持祈祷を行っていた伊勢神宮だったが、中世の戦乱の影響で領地を荒らされ、式年遷宮が行えないほど荒廃していた。