The officially announced reason of this decision was that its purpose to notify the general laws to the common people was fulfilled enough, while there was also a background that Western countries expressed objection toward the ban of Christianity in Japan; the actual reasons for the abolition of Kosatsu would have been as follows;
その理由としては公式には「庶民への周知徹底が図られた」事を理由とし、また背景には「切支丹札（キリスト教禁止）に対する欧米の反発」と言われているが、実際の理由としては、