However, to belt on a sword was originally more like a symbol of privileged class rather than a practical weapon and denying it meant denying their status and identity along with conscription and Chitsuroku-shobun (abolition measure of hereditary stipend) introduced in the same year which actually denied their privileges.
しかし、帯刀はもともと実質的な武備というよりも特権身分の表象としての意味合いが大きく、それを否定する事は、実質的な特権の否定である同年の徴兵および秩禄処分とともに身分アイデンティティーの否定であった。