Isobe Koyodo started to prepare for publishing and while they were printing the work in September 1923, the Great Kanto Earthquake took place, in which all the relevant documents were destroyed by fire, including the original copies (drafts and clean copies kept by the Home Ministry), 'Shikisha Sukeisha Shirabesho' and 'Daisho Jinja Torishirabesho' which were mentioned earlier, except for 4 volumes of the original copies.
磯部甲陽堂が刊行の準備をしていたが、印刷途中の同12年9月に関東大震災が起こり、その災禍で草稿から清書本に至る原本（内務省本）は4冊を残し、その他上述『式社崇敬社調書』や『大小神社取調書』を始め関係書類の全てを焼失した。