Owing to the government policy of the separation of Buddhism and Shintoism in the early Meiji period, the use of the title of gongen was banned for some time in order to deny Honji-suijaku setsu, but eventually the ban was withdrawn. |
明治時代初期の神仏分離政策において、本地垂迹説を否定するために権現号の使用が一時禁止されたが、のちに取り消された。 |