For a pair of reductive groups G ⊃ G ′ , we prove a geometric criterion for the space Sh(λ, ν) of Shintani functions to be finite-dimensional in the Archimedean case. This criterion leads us to a complete classification of the symmetric pairs (G, G ′ ) having finite-dimensional Shintani spaces. A geometric criterion for uniform boundedness of dim C Sh(λ, ν) is also obtained. Furthermore, we prove that symmetry breaking operators of the restriction of smooth admissible representations yield Shintani functions of moderate growth, of which the dimension is determined for (G, G ′ ) = (O(n + 1, 1), O(n, 1)).