| Also, the demotion transfer merely caused him to quit as a politician and return to the normal priesthood, and should it be true that he had fornicated with a woman, who was not necessarily the Empress, he would have been deprived of his priesthood on the grounds of violating the precepts. |
その左遷もあくまで「政治家から一般の僧侶に戻った」というに過ぎず、仮に女性と通じていたというなら、相手が天皇でなくても戒律を破ったとして僧職を剥奪されるはずである。 |