[1][2] The Kamakura period samurai Wada Yoshimori, for example, was the first bettō of the shogunate's Samurai-dokoro.
A bettō was a monk who performed Buddhist rites at shrines and jingūji (shrines part of a temple) before the shinbutsu bunri, the Meiji period law that forbade the mixing of Shinto and Buddhism.
[2] A shrine had various bettō, from the seibettō (head monk) to the shūri bettō (monk in charge of repairs).
Those not associated with religious duties were called zoku bettō.
[2] They were particularly common at Hachiman and gongen shrines, and their mandate lasted three or six years.