| However, this meant that such institutions had no supporting parishioners, so their numbers decreased rapidly when the majority were converted to Buddhist temples or disappeared during the anti-Buddhist movement of the Meiji period. |
しかし、そのために檀越を持たなかったため、明治時代の廃仏毀釈によって、その殆どの寺院が神社に転向したか消滅したりして、急速に数を減らした。 |