The government advanced the policy of the separation of Buddhism and Shintoism to prepare to establish Shinto as the state religion, but their intention met with a setback due to the abolition of the Jingisho (Ministry of Divinities) and the establishment of the Kyobusho (Ministry of Religion) of April 21, 1872, and they paved the way to the cooperative system for the propagation of Shintoism and Buddhism.
政府は神道国教化の下準備として神仏分離政策を行なったが、明治5年3月14日(旧暦)（1872年4月21日）のJ省廃止・教部省設置で頓挫し、神仏共同布教体制となった。