During the Edo period, a movement occurred which moved Ju-kyo away from its previous role as accomplishments for Buddhist monks to learn, and establish it as a single learning (the separation of Confucianism from Buddhism).
江戸時代になると、それまでの仏教の僧侶らが学ぶたしなみとしての儒教から独立させ、一つの学問として形成する動きがあらわれた（儒仏分離）。