Following this, Kashima-jingu Shrine and Katori-jingu Shrine were listed in place of Isonokami-jingu Shrine in the Jimmyocho (register of deities) of Engishiki law during the Heian period and, until the Edo period, there were only three shrines with the title 'jingu' (Sumiyoshi Taisha Shrine was also treated as a jingu as it was under direct royal control like Ise-jingu Shrine and regularly conducted the construction of a new shrine and the transfer of the enshrined object from the old to the new).
その後、平安時代に成立した延喜式神名帳においては、石上神宮に代わり鹿島神宮と香取神宮が「神宮」と記載され、江戸時代まで「神宮」を社号とする神社は、この3社のみであった（神宮待遇としては、伊勢神宮と同じく王権直属であり、式年遷宮を行っている住吉大社があった）。