| Accordingly, when Empress Genmyo abdicated the throne to Empress Gensho, Emperor Tenchi ordered the investiture based upon "the lay which is also irreversible like the universe and deemed as the permanent code." |
それによれば、かつて元明天皇は元正天皇に譲位したとき、天智天皇が「万世に長く改めない常の典として立てたまい敷きたまえる法」に従って、わが子に授けよと命じた。 |