| In the Middle Ages it changed to the punishment for the similar crime by the bukeho (samurai law) to sentence the person who made a false statement to a legal institution which was an agent of the Emperor or Seii taishogun (literally, "great general who subdues the barbarians"). |
中世武家法においては転じて、天皇・征夷大将軍の代理である訴訟機関に対して虚偽の陳述を行った者もこの罪で処せられた。 |