As for the number 5, with the unification of the state and religion in the early days of the Meiji period, Koremi KAMEI and others at the Jingi Jimukyoku (Shinto Worship Bureau) promulgated a theory unifying Shinto and Confucianism maintaining that 'the Emperor' was consubstantial with 'heaven', and therefore omnipotent.
5.は明治の初期に祭政一致の国家体制を企図した神祇事務局の亀井茲監らが「天皇」と「天」とが同体しているという神儒合一的な観念によって全能の存在としたもの。