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口実: 150 Terms and Phrases

口実
excuse
pretext
cloak
pretense
subterfuge

不自然な口実
a farfetched excuse

～という口実で
on the pretext of [that] ~

口実で～と言う
pretext that ~

～を口実にする
pretext that ~

口実を受け入れる
accept an excuse for

戦争の原因･口実
casus bellie

もっともらしい口実
a plausible excuse

彼は口実をでっち上げた。
He made up an excuse.

遅れまたは怠慢に対する口実
a pretext for delay or inaction

彼の不在のでっち上げの口実
a fabricated excuse for his absence

話全体が口実っぽかったのだ。
The whole story was a pretext.

「単なる口実に過ぎないんだ。
'is only a pretext,

彼は遅刻の口実をこしらえた。
He invented an excuse for being late.

それは怠ける口実にすぎない。
That is a mere excuse for idleness.

ただ君と話す口実が欲しかった。
I just wanted an excuse to talk to you.

その男は自己防衛を口実にした。
The man pleaded self-defence.

病気を口実にして彼は来なかった。
He did not come on the pretext of sickness.

（野口実『源義経流浪の勇者』文英堂）
'MINAMOTO no Yoshitsune, a Wandering Hero' by Minoru NOGUCHI, published by Buneido.

彼は私に会うことを口実にして家に来た。
He came to my house on the pretext of seeing me.

風変わりで無謀な賭けを口実にしていること。
the pretext of an eccentric and foolhardy bet

しかし、道路建設は自由党弾圧の口実になった。
However construction of roads became the excuse of oppression of Liberal Party.

彼は病気ではなかった、それは単なる口実だった
he wasn't sick--it was just a subterfuge

君はなんらかの口実をつくらなければならない。
You'll have to manufacture some kind of excuse.

彼女は自分に不利になるような口実を彼に与えた。
She gave him a handle against her.

この件に関して野口実氏は義家陰謀説も出されている。
Minoru NOGUCHI has put forward the Yoshiie Conspiracy Theory about this incident.

（直前の敗戦を口実に、参加を拒まれたとの説もある）
(There is another theory that he was refused to participate in the conference because he had been defeated in the latest war.)

それを私は単に私に会いたくない口実だと思ったんだが、
and what I thought was a mere excuse to avoid me;

政子が薬師如来供養を口実に能員を名越の北条邸に招いた。
Masako invited Yoshikazu to the Hojo's residence in Nagoe with the excuse that they would make a kuyo (put offerings) to Yakushi-nyorai (Healing Buddha).

そしてフィリアス・フォッグは、馬鹿げた口実で国を離れた。
and he came away on a foolish pretext,

彼はパーティーに行かないためのうまい口実をでっちあげた。
He cooked up a good excuse for not going to the party.

僕は身体を起こし、何とか口実を作り、家から抜け出したのだ。
I rose, and, making my excuses, escaped from the house.

おそらくフリントは口実を見つけて、様子を見に戻ってくるだろう。
Probably he would find a pretext for coming back to see.

彼は三十四か三十五歳だから、若さは彼の弁解の口実にはできない。
He was thirty-four or thirty-five years of age, so that youth could not be pleaded as his excuse;

鎌倉権五郎景政の従兄弟との噂（野口実、元木泰雄両氏とか）もある。
Some people (such as Minoru NOGUCHI and Yasuo MOTOKI) guess that he was a cousin of KAMAKURA no Gongoro Kagemasa.

また彼はちょっとは世間を見てきた人だから無知も口実にはできない。
nor could ignorance be his excuse since he was a man who had seen something of the world.

根岸友山：1863年4月下旬、伊勢神宮参りに行くという口実で帰東。
Yuzan NEGISHI: Left Kyoto for Tokyo at the end of April 1863 using the excuse that he was going to Ise-jingu Shrine.

穴穂部皇子は天皇になることを欲し、口実をもうけて逆を殺そうと謀った。
Prince Anahobe wanted to be the Emperor of Japan and used this as an excuse to make an attempt on Sakau's life.

そのような態度では、ちょっとした口実によって不満や落胆につながります。
these take it amiss, and repine for small cause.

さらに、財産を取りあげる口実が見つからないということは決してないのです。
Besides, pretexts for taking away the property are never wanting;

しかし、いまだ事情を知らない内大臣は母大宮 (源氏物語)の病を口実に遠慮する。
The Minister of the Palace, however, did not know the truth, and he declined, citing the illness of his mother, Omiya.

そしてこの口実で、アリスは丘をかけおりて、最初の小川六本を飛び越えたのでした。
So with this excuse she ran down the hill and jumped over the first of the six little brooks.

宮に恋心を募らせていた夕霧は、八月の中ごろに御息所の見舞いを口実に小野を訪れる。
In around mid-August, Yugiri, who is in love with her, visits Ono on the pretext that he'll call on Miyasudokoro to inquire about her health.

源氏は紫の上に気を遣いながらも、御堂の様子を見に行くとの口実でようやく大堰を来訪。
Although worrying about Lady Murasaki, Genji goes over to Oi at last on the pretext that he would check on how the temple was going.

この口実には、御師が農民に伊勢参拝の勧誘活動を行っていた事も理由になっていたようだ。
This justification was used, partly because onshi conducted activities to invite peasants to join in on a pilgrimage to Ise.

これを口実に年貢を納めない商工業者に対して農民の年貢に相当する冥加を求めるようになった。
With the above pretext, feudal lords imposed Myoga, which corresponded to nengu (land tax) imposed on farmers, on merchants and traders who were not required to pay nengu.

同じ口実のもと、彼はアフリカを襲い、イタリアに攻め入り、ついにはフランスを攻撃しました。
Under this same cloak he assailed Africa, he came down on Italy, he has finally attacked France;
Under this same cloak he assailed Africa, he came down on Italy, he has finally attacked France;

人と交わりをしない者は口実を捜し、すべてのよい考えに激しく反対する。 (箴言 18:1)
An unfriendly man pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment. (Proverbs 18:1)

見よ、彼はわたしを攻める口実を見つけ、わたしを自分の敵とみなし、 (ヨブ記 33:10)
Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his enemy. (Job 33:10)

桐壺帝死後の右大臣派と左大臣派の政争にまきこまれた源氏は、これを口実に陥れられようとする。
Because of this, Genji, who has become involved in the political conflict between the Udaijin and Sadaijin (Minister of the Left) after the death of Emperor Kiritsubo, is put in a difficult situation.

この性向のおかげで、出版作業に手をつけない口実となるような、他の関心事がすぐに見つかった。
enabled me immediately to discover other considerations sufficient to excuse me for not undertaking the task.

去るための口実を見つける以前に、彼女はついさきほど到着したところであろう　−　W.B.イェーツ
would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave- W.B.Yeats

その後、1560年には畠山高政と安見宗房が和睦したが、それが三好長慶に畠山氏攻撃の口実とされた。
In 1560, Takamasa HATAKEYAMA and Munefusa YASUMI were reconciled, but it gave Nagayoshi MIYOSHI an excuse to attack the Hatakeyama clan.

というのも、強奪で生計を立てはじめた者は、他人の所有する物を奪う口実をいつでも見つけるからです。
for he who has once begun to live by robbery will always find pretexts for seizing what belongs to others;

身柄は京都所司代が管理する六角獄舎に預けられていたが、禁門の変の際に生じた火災を口実に殺害された。
He was taken into custody at Rokkaku prison under supervision of the Kyoto deputy, however he was murdered there and his death was covered up by a fire which occurred at the time of Kinmon Incident.

第一は、これまで略奪してきた領主に一族を根絶やしにして、教皇に口実を与えないようにすることでした。
Firstly, by exterminating the families of those lords whom he had despoiled, so as to take away that pretext from the Pope.
Firstly, by exterminating the families of those lords whom he had despoiled, so as to take away that pretext from the Pope.

マホニーの姉が彼のために口実を書くことに、レオ・ディロンは兄に頼んで病気と言ってもらうことにした。
Mahony's big sister was to write an excuse for him and Leo Dillon was to tell his brother to say he was sick.

翌7月には、政務に疎い西郷を補うためという口実で、肥前の大隈重信を参議入りさせることを西郷に提案。
In August 1872, he suggested to Saigo that Shigenobu OKUMA from Hizen should become sangi to help Saigo, who was not an expert politician.

なんだかんだと口実をつけて、みんなどこかへいってしまい、やがてアリス一人がのこされてしまいました。
On various pretexts they all moved off, and Alice was soon left alone.

しかし日本政府はこれを口実として砲艦外交を押し出し、1876年江華島条約（日朝修好条規）が結ばれる。
The Japanese government, using the incident as a pretext for gunboat diplomacy, concluded the Treaty of Ganghwa (Japanese-Korea Treaty of Amity) in 1876.

高額品の値下げなどときれいごとをいっても、結局のところ新消費税への風当たりを和らげる口実にすぎない。
The reduced price of luxury goods is just window dressing to make the new consumption tax look better.

皇帝派と革命政権派が激しい内戦が行われたが、世界の列強がチェコスロバキア軍救援を口実にシベリアに出兵した。
The Emperor followers and revolutionary regime groups had the bitter civil strife, and world powers sent their troops to Syberia on the pretense of assisting Czechoslovakian military force.

長徳元年（995年）に起きた長徳の変では、内大臣藤原伊周がこれを行ったという口実により大宰府に左遷された。
FUJIWARA no Korechika, Minister of the Interior was demoted to Dazai-fu (local government office in Kyushu region) based on the excuse that he performed it during the Chotoku Incident that broke out in the year 995.

この口実のもとに、帝位への野心はみせず、ローマに軍を進め、発進した知らせが届く前にイタリアに入ったのです。
and under this pretext, without appearing to aspire to the throne, he moved the army on Rome, and reached Italy before it was known that he had started.

関白の位をめぐり二条昭実と口論（関白相論）となり、菊亭晴季の蠢動で、豊臣秀吉に関白就任の口実を与えてしまった。
He got into an argument with Akizane NIJO over the position of Kanpaku (the chief adviser to the Emperor), an incident known as the 'Kanpaku Soron,' which, following maneuvering by Harusue KIKUTEI, provided Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI with an excuse for assuming the position of Kanpaku.

この事件は、豊臣家攻撃の口実とするため、家康が崇伝らと画策して問題化させたものであるとの考え方が一般的である。
This incident has been generally regarded as an incident that Ieyasu, Suden and others plotted and made an issue to find an excuse for attacking the Toyotomi family.

盗まれた宝石は、泥棒自身の客室を除いてどこかに隠されていなければならない、というもっともな口実があったからね。
that the stolen objects must be hidden somewhere -- anywhere rather than in the thief's own cabin.

この口実でラミロを捕え、ある朝、彼を処刑して、木片と血塗りのナイフを傍らに置いて、チェゼーナの辻に晒しました。
Under this pretence he took Ramiro, and one morning caused him to be executed and left on the piazza at Cesena with the block and a bloody knife at his side.

我々はイスラエルに、侵攻を継続するためのいかなる口実も与えることがないよう、最大限の注意を払わねばなりません。
We have all to be careful not to provide the Israelis with any pretexts to continue their aggression.

更に室町幕府が荘園の一円支配を認める権限を獲得したことで却ってその代行者である守護の荘園への介入の口実を作った。
In addition, the Kamakura bakufu acquired the right to approve the domination over the whole region of Shoen, which rather allowed provincial constables to intervene into Shoen as the representatives of the Kamakura bakufu.

日本側は密輸行為を無視し、領海問題、日章旗問題を口実に中国と強硬な交渉を行い、謝罪と10万円の損害賠償を要求した。
Japan, disregarding the act of smuggling, negotiated with China in hard-line manners under plea of the issues of territorial sea and of the Japanese (rising sun) flag, and demanded an apology and compensation for damage of a hundred thousand yen.

そのため、各地の守護が戦乱などを口実に幕府の許しを得ずに行ってきた半済・押領を追認・永続化させる法的根拠を与えた。
This provided the legal grounds to authorize and perpetuate the usurpation of territories and hanzei that had been enforced by Shugo in various regions on the pretext of war without approval from the bakufu.

そこで攘夷実行の期日を将軍帰京後より1月後という短期間に設定することで逆に実行不能の口実を作ろうと画策したのである。
Then, he planned to make an excuse for not being able to execute it by setting the deadline of the expulsion of foreigners only one month after the Shogun's return to Edo.

また、伊勢参拝はあくまで旅に出る口実である事も多く、最新の知識や技術、流行などを知り見聞を広げるための旅でもあった。
Visiting Ise was often just an excuse to set out on a journey, and the journey was also made in order to acquire the latest knowledge and skills, know what is in fashion, and experience new things.

そのため、家康側が全面的に銘文の字句を口実としたものではなく、豊臣側の軽率な行為に乗じたものというという性格の方が強い。
Therefore, the incident was not essentially the one that the Ieyasu side used the phrases in the inscription for the full excuse for attacking the Toyotomi's side, but took advantage of the thoughtlessness of the Toyotomi side.

この事件は、豊臣氏攻撃の口実とするため、家康が崇伝,林羅山らと画策して問題化させたものであるとの考え方が一般的であった。
It has been considered generally that this incident was conceived and made a problem by Ieyasu, together with Suden and Razan HAYASHI, to give a pretext for attacking the Toyotomi clan.

しかし、農民の移動に規制があった江戸時代に旅をするにはそれなりの理由が必要で、その口実として伊勢参拝が使われるようになった。
A good reason was required, however, to make a journey in the Edo period when the movement of peasants was restricted, and the pilgrimage to Ise came to be used as justification for their journeys.

幕府としても酒株運上金の導入（うんじょうきん）、冥加金（みょうがきん）など、何かと口実をつけて酒屋からの献金に財源を期待した。
The bakufu expected contribution from sakaya using the names, for example, of business tax on sakekabu (an official certificate of sake brewing) or myogakin (tax for certifying business right).

しかし、信友が守護である斯波氏を討った、すなわち、守護への反逆をおこなったため、信長はこれを口実に信友を滅ぼすことに成功した。
Nobunaga took advantage of the fact that Nobutomo killed Shugo, the Shiba clan, which meant a rebellion against Shugo, and succeeded in destroying Nobutomo.

以前師事したことのある京都の青蓮院宮について書道を学び、兼ねて持病の療養をしたいということを口実として、旅券の下付を申請した。
Instead Satondo studied calligraphy under Shorenin-no-miya in Kyoto, in which he had studied under before, and using the excuse that he also wanted medical treatment for his chronic disease, he applied to be issued a passport.

長州藩の武備恭順や大村益次郎たちによる秘密貿易を口実として幕府側（会津藩・新撰組）は、第二次長州征討（長州征討）を強行してくる。
The shogunate side (the Aizu clan and Shinsengumi) forcefully made a second conquest of Choshu on the pretext of its nominal submission to the shogunate accompanied by secret armament as well as Omura's secret trading with foreign countries.

同年11月18日 (旧暦)（12月13日）、近藤勇は資金の用立て・国事の相談があるとの口実で七条の妾宅に伊東を招いて酒宴を張った。
On December 13 of the same year (November 18 according to the old calendar), Isami KONDO asked Ito over to his mistress' home in Shichijo, to discuss a loan and national affairs, and served Ito alcohol.

こうしたことを背景に、仁平元年（1151年）、従者同士の諍いを口実にした頼長に邸宅を襲撃され、散々に破壊されるという災難を蒙っている。
Under such circumstances, his residence was destroyed completely in 1151 by the attack made by Yorinaga on the pretext of a squabble between their servants.

被害者側がこれらの被害を訴えても、多くの場合、加害者側の信教の自由と民事不介入を口実に団体による攻撃を恐れた警察側が介入を拒む事が多い。
If the victims file claims, the police, who are afraid of attacks by the organization, often reject them on grounds of freedom of religion on the side of the perpetrators and nonintervention of civil cases.

当時の日本はまだ極東の弱小国であり、この事件を口実に大国ロシアに宣戦布告でもされたら国家滅亡さえ危ぶまれる、彼女はそう判断したのである。
In those years Japan was a lesser country of the Far East, so she thought that Japan might be destroyed if one of powers Russia declared war on the pretext of this incident.

そして、強硬論から寛典論に180度転じた西郷が、同じく強硬派だった板垣や京都の面々にその政策転換を説明する口実として利用したのではないか。
Then, Nobutoshi HAGIWARA described Saigo using 'The pressure of Parkes' as the justification to substantiate the strategic policy change after Saigo's conversion to belief in a more lenient treatment policy, than that of the hardliners; a one-hundred and eighty degree change.

しかしながら、反乱の口実に東大寺が利用された、ということは、東大寺建立自体が、天皇の理想を実現させるだけのためにであったということである。
However, the fact that the Todai-ji Temple was used as a pretext for the rebellion showed the construction of the Todai-ji Temple itself aimed to realize only the Emperor's ideal.

同年5月14日、後鳥羽上皇は「流鏑馬揃え」を口実に諸国の兵を集め、北面・西面の武士や近国の武士、大番役の在京の武士1700余騎が集まった。
On the fourteenth day of the fifth month in 1221, the retired Emperor Gotoba used a mounted archery competition as a pretext to gather samurai warriors together from all over the country, until he had assembled an army of over 1700 mounted samurai, including those in the Northern and Western Guard Corps and those official guardsmen stationed in Kyoto.

しかし彼が他人にかわって行動するときには、他人の諸事情が自分の諸事情でもあるという口実のもとに、望むまま自由にふるまうべきではありません。
but he ought not to be free to do as he likes in acting for another, under the pretext that the affairs of the other are his own affairs.

なぜならそれらはイスラエル政府に侵攻の範囲を拡大しパレスチナ市民の財産により多くの損害や破壊を引き起こすための口実を与えてしまうからです。
because they give the Israeli government the pretext to expand the scope of its aggression and to cause more harm and destruction to the property of the Palestinian citizens.

自由人にふさわしく行動しなさい。ただし、自由をば悪を行う口実として用いず、神の僕にふさわしく行動しなさい。 (ペテロの第一の手紙 2:16)
as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God. (1 Peter 2:16)

また7月3日の黄海道沖に中国からの倭寇数十隻が沿岸を荒らし回っていると言う報告を受け、これを口実にした対馬再征も検討されたが実行されなかった。
Furthermore, a report reached the Koreans on July 3 saying that several dozen Wako ships from China were active in the sea around Hwanghae province (located in Korea) and had begun rampaging along the coast, after which a discussion ensued as to whether this should be used as a pretext for a second punitive expedition against Tsushima, but no such invasion was ever launched.

律法学者やパリサイ人たちは、イエスを訴える口実を見付けようと思って、安息日にいやされるかどうかをうかがっていた。 (ルカによる福音書 6:7)
The scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, that they might find an accusation against him. (Luke 6:7)

しかし、この条件を口実として、旧南朝の皇族の子孫や旧南朝にゆかりのある人々による室町幕府に対する抵抗や叛乱がその後も100年にわたって相次いだ。
However, this condition served as a reason for former Southern Dynasty Imperial family descendants and related people to continue on with resistance and insurrections against the Muromachi bakufu for around 100 years.

そして鎌倉公方足利持氏が、正長から永享に改元したにも拘らず正長の年号を使い続け、また鎌倉五山の住職を勝手に決定するなどの専横を口実とし討伐を試みる。
He then attempted to subjugate Mochiuji ASHIKAGA, the Kamakura Kubo, using the excuses that Ashikaga kept using the era name Shocho even after it had been changed from Shocho to Eikyo, and that Ashikaga appointed at his discretion the head priests for the Five Official Temples of Kamakura.

政府が、資格に欠けるところがあるという口実で、だれかを専門職から、教職からさえ排除することを許すなら、政府にあまりに危険な権力を与えることになります。
It would be giving too dangerous a power to governments, were they allowed to exclude any one from professions, even from the profession of teacher, for alleged deficiency of qualifications:

さらに、もっと大きな計画に着手するため、いつも宗教を口実にしながら、宗教にかこつけた残虐さで、その王国からムーア人を駆逐し一掃することに専念しました。
Further, always using religion as a plea, so as to undertake greater schemes, he devoted himself with a pious cruelty to driving out and clearing his kingdom of the Moors;
Further, always using religion as a plea, so as to undertake greater schemes, he devoted himself with pious cruelty to driving out and clearing his kingdom of the Moors;

さらに進んで1990年代には、高坂王は事前に大海人皇子と謀議を結んでおり、駅鈴を求めるというのは連絡の口実か、書紀編者の創作にすぎないとする説も現れた。
In 1990's, a new theory saying that Takasaka no Okimi agreed to the plot with Prince Oama preliminary and demanding ekirei was just excuse for contact or this was a creation of 'Nihonshoki' (Chronicles of Japan) editor appeared.

1931年の満州事変以後、日本に対する中華民国の排日運動が激化していったが、日本軍部が「治安の維持」を口実に暴走し、中国大陸への派兵と侵略を進めていった。
After the Manchurian Inciden in 1931, anti-Japanese movements in China became more serious, and the Japanese military sent its troops to China to invade the country; the Japanese military went out of control on the pretense of keeping 'public security.'

しかし、野口実、元木泰雄両名は、『今昔物語集』巻第二十五第十「依頼信言平貞道切人頭語」に出てくる源頼光の郎党、平貞通（道）（碓井貞光）の孫と推定している。
However, both Minoru NOGUCHI and Yasuo MOTOKI guess that he was a grandchild of TAIRA no Sadamichi (Sadamitsu USUI), a roto of MINAMOTO no Yorimitsu, who appeared in 'A story that Yorinobu asked TAIRA no Sadamichi to kill a person' in the tenth section of volume 25 of 'Konjaku Monogatari Shu.'

明治44年（1911年）には大逆事件が生じ、時の政権から社会主義者弾圧の口実に使用され、明治天皇を暗殺しようとしたとして幸徳秋水ら12人が死刑に処された。
In 1911, the Taigyaku Jiken (a case of high treason) was developed and was used as an excuse to oppress socialists by the government at that time, and 12 people, including Shusui KOTOKU, were executed for attempting to assassinate Emperor Meiji.

そこでその人々は言った、「われわれはダニエルの神の律法に関して、彼を訴える口実を得るのでなければ、ついに彼を訴えることはできまい」と。 (ダニエル書 6:5)
Then these men said, 'We shall not find any grounds against this Daniel, unless we find it against him concerning the law of his God.' (Daniel 6:5)

襲撃を主張する者は元老西園寺を「君側の奸」の最たるものと見なしていたのに対し、否定派は西園寺を天皇とのパイプとして利用することを表向きの口実としていたと言われる。
It is said that those who advocated the attack viewed Genro Saionji as a prime example of a 'wily vassal surrounding the Emperor,' while those who opposed used an outward excuse of exploiting Saionji as a pipe between the Emperor.

彼らがそう言ったのは、イエスをためして、訴える口実を得るためであった。しかし、イエスは身をかがめて、指で地面に何か書いておられた。 (ヨハネによる福音書 8:6)
They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down, and wrote on the ground with his finger. (John 8:6)

それ以外には同時代の記録に見えないことから、野口実は『中世東国武士団の研究』「平維茂と平維良」において平兼忠の子の鎮守府将軍平維良と同一人物と言う説を展開している。
Since he does not appear in other documents from the same period, Minoru NOGUCHI argues in 'TAIRA no Koremochi and TAIRA no Koreyoshi' in 'A Research on Togoku Samurai in the medieval period' that he is the one and the same as TAIRA no Koreyoshi, who was the son of TAIRA no Kanetada and Chinju-fu shogun (Commander-in-Chief of the Defense of the North).

稲田側に対しては、この事件を口実に北海道静内町と色丹島の配地を与えるという名目で、兵庫県管轄の士族として移住開拓を命じ、彼らは荒野の広がる北の大地へと旅立っていった。
For the Inada side, the government used this incident as an excuse to order them to migrate as warrior class in Hyogo Prefecture jurisdiction, under the guise of granting the territory in Sizunai-cho, Hokkaido and Shikotan-to Island, and the Inada clan went to the wild North districts.

万寿元年（1024年）の豊明節会においては、任務として五節舞の舞姫を貢進するも、病を口実にその舞姫の控え室に籠もってしまうという事件を引き起こしている（『小右記』）。
In the Toyoakari no sechi-e (a seasonal court banquet, which took place the day after Niiname-sai festival in November) in 1024, he paid a tribute of Maihime (dancing girl) for Gosechi no mai Dance (dance performance as part of a harvest festival) as his duty; however, he created an incident where he confined himself in the anteroom for the Maihime on the excuse of his illness ('Shoyuki') (The Diary of FUJIWARA no Sanesuke).

ローマの貴族はオルシーニ派とコロンナ派という二つの派閥に分れ、たえず騒乱の口実を設けては、教皇の面前で武器を携えて競いあい、教皇の地位を弱体化させ、無力化してきたのです。
who, being divided into two factions, Orsini and Colonna, had always a pretext for disorder, and, standing with arms in their hands under the eyes of the Pontiff, kept the pontificate weak and powerless.
who, being divided into two factions, Orsini and Colonnesi, had always a pretext for disorder, and, standing with arms in their hands under the eyes of the Pontiff, kept the pontificate weak and powerless.

「公共の要請」などという口実によって、比較的有用な職業から無用な職業に労働者を移動することができるのは、労働が、自分達の権力を確保したい人以外には不必要だからなのである。
Because work is unnecessary except to those whose power it secures, workers are shifted from relatively useful to relatively useless occupations as a measure to assure public order.

人々は、仲間の人類の労働のもとに、安楽で楽しげに暮らすことに満足して、必要性を金科玉条の口実としてきたために、時が満ちるにつれてその必要性が人類のもとにもどってきたのです。
Man had been content to live in ease and delight upon the labours of his fellow-man, had taken Necessity as his watchword and excuse, and in the fullness of time Necessity had come home to him.

正安二年（1300年）に成立した度会行忠の『古老口実伝（ころうくじつでん）』に、飛鳥記、大宗秘府、心御柱秘記、神皇実録と共に、「伊勢神宮秘記　数百巻　内　最極書」とされている。
In 'Koro Kujitsu-den' written by Yukitada WATARAI in 1300, the book is recorded as 'a postscript of Ise-jingu Shrine Hiki (secret record of Ise-jingu Shrine) of several hundred volumes' together with Asuka-ki, Taiso Hifu, Shin no Mihashira Hiki, and Jinno Jitsuroku.

更に戦国時代_(日本)には京都の日蓮宗寺院21本山に対して末寺になるように要求して拒絶されると、日蓮宗宗徒と比叡山西塔の僧侶の宗論を口実にこれらの寺院を焼き払った（天文法華の乱）。
Moreover, in the Sengoku Period (Period of Warring States), it burned down 21 head temples of the Nichiren Sect in Kyoto when they rejected its demand to become its matsuji through the excuse of sect conflict between the followers of the Nichiren Sect and Buddhist monks of Saito (Western Section) of Mt. Hiei (Tenbun Hokke War).

これは、霍光の権勢を恐れた宣帝が、政務不行届を口実に霍光により廃位されることを避けるためであったと言われる（関白の別名の一つ「博陸」は、霍光が‘博陸侯’であった事に由来している）。
This was so that Emperor Xuan, who feared Huo Guang's influence, could avoid being deposed by Huo Guang using negligence in government affairs as an excuse (Hakuriku is another name for Kampaku, because Huo Guang was 'Hakurikuko').

ロンバルディアをヴェネツィアと分割したことは、それでイタリアに足掛かりを得たかったという口実で正当化できるでしょうが、こちらの分割は、必要性という口実がないので、非難されて当然です。
And if the partition which she made with the Venetians in Lombardy was justified by the excuse that by it she got a foothold in Italy, this other partition merited blame, for it had not the excuse of that necessity.

以降、この事件を口実に全ての社会主義者、アナキスト（無政府主義者）に対して取り調べや家宅捜索が行なわれ、根絶やしにする弾圧を、政府が主導、フレームアップ（政治的でっちあげ）したとされる事件。
The Incident triggered the Japanese government to step up crackdowns on all the socialists and anarchists through investigations and house search and the government even faked treason cases in an effort to eradicate them.

わたしたちは、あなたがたが知っているように、決してへつらいの言葉を用いたこともなく、口実を設けて、むさぼったこともない。それは、神があかしして下さる。 (テサロニケ人への第一の手紙 2:5)
For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness), (1 Thessalonians 2:5)

彼女の呼称「秋好中宮」は後世の読者につけられたもので、源氏が彼女に言い寄る口実に「あなたは春と秋のどちらがお好きか」と尋ねた際（「薄雲」）、「母御息所の亡くなった秋に惹かれる」と答えた事に由来する。
Her name 'Akikonomu Chugu' was given by readers of later ages and was derived from the episode when Genji asked her 'Which do you like spring or autumn?' when making advances to her ('Usugumo'), and she answered 'I am attracted to autumn because my mother, Miyasudokoro, passed away.'

この35年後の長禄2年（1458年）5月8日、今度は教綱が、和睦を口実に宇都宮城に招かれたところを殺害され、藤姓塩谷氏は衰退する（5月13日に宇都宮城からの帰りの氏家町で討たれたと記す文献もあり）。
Thirty-five years later, on June 27, 1458, when Noritsuna was invited to Utsunomiya-jo Castle under the pretense of reconciliation, he was killed, whereupon the SHIONOYA family of the FUJIWARA family entered a decline (there is also a document asserting that he was killed on July 2 in Ujiie-machi, on his way back from Utsunomiya-jo Castle).

この制度復活の口実には、「二・二六事件への関与が疑われた予備役武官（事件への関与が疑われた荒木貞夫や真崎甚三郎が、事件後に予備役に編入されていた）を、軍部大臣に就かせない」ということが挙げられていた。
The reason behind this system's revival was 'not to replace the suspected Yobieki military officers of the involvement in the Feburary 26th Incident (suspects for the incident's involvement, Sadao ARAKI and Jinzaburo MAZAKI, were then transferred to Yobieki after the incident) to the military minister.'

入信を断った場合に、非合法な物理力の行使による信仰の強制（もしくは拒否）や団体への寄付は勿論、勧誘した側の信仰を反対する親類への弱みに付け込んだ慰謝料を口実とした恐喝等と言った犯罪に発展することもある。
If the inducement to the religion is rejected, then it may turn to a crime, which is first of all the forced affiliation to (or rejection of) the religion or donation to the organization by exertion of unlawful physical power, or which is blackmail with the excuse of payment for pain and suffering exploiting the weak point of the relatives opposing the religious belief, or the like.

それは、無神論者は嘘つきにちがいないという口実で、喜んで嘘をつくあらゆる無神論者の証言を受け入れながら、虚偽を肯定するより、嫌悪される信条を公然と告白するという不面目をものともしない人だけを拒絶するのです。
Under pretence that atheists must be liars, it admits the testimony of all atheists who are willing to lie, and rejects only those who brave the obloquy of publicly confessing a detested creed rather than affirm a falsehood.

わたしがそれをやるまいと意図的に決めたのは、ある種の思考の持ち主たちが、わたしの原理を勝手に想像してそれをもとにとんでもない哲学を構築する口実を与え、それについてこのわたしが責められるのがいやだったからだ。
and yet that I have expressly determined not to do so, to prevent a certain class of minds from thence taking occasion to build some extravagant philosophy upon what they may take to be my principles, and my being blamed for it.

二十三夜待ちまでを行う地域が多くを占めたが、二十六夜待ちまで行う地域があり、月光に阿弥陀仏・観音菩薩・勢至菩薩の三尊が現れる（広辞苑より）、という口実を付けて月が昇る（大体、深夜二時ごろ）まで遊興にふけった。
Most regions would have the moon-waiting until the twenty-third night, but some had it until the twenty-sixth night, and people pursued pleasure until the moon rose (around two o'clock in the morning) on the excuse that three deities--Amida Buddha, Kannon Bodhisattva and Seishi Bodhisattva--would appear in the moonlight (from the Japanese dictionary 'Kojien').

野口実氏は『中世東国武士団の研究』「平維茂と平維良」において『今昔物語集』巻第25第4「平維茂が郎党、殺され話」、第5「平維茂、藤原諸任を罰ちたる語」に出てくる余五将軍平維茂と同一人物と言う説を展開している。
Mr. Minoru NOGUCHI argues in 'TAIRA no Koreshige and TAIRA no Koreyoshi' in 'A Research on Togoku Samurai in the medieval period' that he is the one and same as TAIRA no Koreshige, the Yogo Shogun who appears in Episode 4 'TAIRA no Koreshige gets killed by a retainer' and Episode 5 'TAIRA no Koreshige slew FUJIWARA no Moroto' of Volume 25 of 'Konjaku monogatari shu' (Tales of Times Now and Then collection).

また、野口実編『千葉氏の研究』に収録されている論文「古代末期の東国における開発領主の位置」において、黒田紘一郎は、源義朝はその段階では棟梁などではなく、同じレベルで領地を奪おうとした形跡があると論じられている。
In the article 'Kodaimakki no togoku ni okeru kaihatsuryoshu no ichi' (the Position of kaihatsu-ryoshu [local notables who actually developed the land] in Togoku [the eastern part of Japan, particularly the Kanto region] in the late ancient times) included in 'Chibashi no kenkyu' (the Study of the Chiba clan) edited by Minoru NOGUCHI, Koichiro KURODA discusses that MINAMOTO no Yoshitomo was not toryo (head of the clan) at that stage, and that there is evidence that he attempted to capture the territory as a person of the same level.

これは田中義一が張作霖爆殺事件（満州某重大事件）の上奏の不一致を昭和天皇に叱責され内閣が総辞職した際、西園寺が天皇に累を及ぼすということを口実にして、天皇による田中への叱責に反対していたことから見ても明らかである。
This can be clearly seen from the fact that Saionji, using the excuse that it would cast a harmful effect on the Emperor, opposed the Emperor's reprimand of Tanaka when all the cabinet members resigned after Showa Emperor reprimanded Giichi TANAKA for the discord of Joso upon the Incident of Blowing Up Zhang Zuolin to Death (a certain serious incident in Manchuria).

しかし、文久元年（1861年）2月、水戸藩領だけでなく天領でも資金集めをしたことや天狗党を詐称して攘夷を口実とする恐喝が横行したことなどから、幕府から水戸藩に攘夷論者の活動の抑圧が指示され、水戸藩の方針は転換した。
However, because Tengu-to Party collected funds not only from within the domain of Mito Clan but also from land directly governed by the Tokugawa shogunate, and also because of rampant blackmailing on the pretext of Joi under the name of Tengu-to Party the Tokugawa Shogunate instructed Mito Clan in February of 1861 to restrain the activities of men who carried the idea of Joi; Mito Clan changed its policy [accordingly].

橋本によれば、清盛はこの状況を奇貨として滋子の生んだ皇子の養母を「先の摂政の未亡人」である盛子に引き受けさせ、「東宮の養母の父親」である清盛が内大臣や太政大臣に出世する口実としたとされる（橋本200622-24）。
According to Hashimoto, Kiyomori seized the chance by making Moriko (who was the widow of the former Regent) the foster mother of the prince that Shigeko gave birth to, and therefore Kiyomori became the 'father of the foster mother of the Crown Prince' and used this as a reason to promote him to Nai-daijin and Daijyo-daijin (Hashimoto 200622-24).

ベディックトン［＃「ベディックトン」は底本では「ベディックドン」］は入口を、何か忘れ物をしたと云う口実にて通りたるに相違なく、しかして見張人を殺害し、手早く最大の金庫を開らきて、中の目ぼしきものを持ち去りたるに相違なきなり。
There could be no doubt that Beddington had obtained entrance by pretending that he had left something behind him, and having murdered the watchman, rapidly rifled the large safe, and then made off with his booty.

特に明治17年（1884年）4月下旬に森が文部省の顧問である御用掛に任命される事を知ると、「病気」を口実に伊藤（宮内卿兼務）ら政府高官との面会を一切拒絶し、6月25日まで2ヶ月近くも公務を放棄して引籠もって承認を遅らせている。
Especially there was one occasion when the Emperor knew Mori was appointed as a general affairs official of the Imperial Household, an advisor to the Ministry of Education in the late April, 1884, he refused to see any high officials of the government such as Ito (he also worked as kunai Kyo (the director of the Imperial House hold)) using the excuse of being sick, he did not appear in public and cancelled his government affairs for more than two months until 25 June, since he did not wish to approve Ito's appointment.

西南戦争が起こる直前にも、西郷や不平士族の動向を、帰省を口実に密偵を現地に送り込み内偵と西郷側の内部分裂を図るなど、川路の主たる実力は一般的な警察力と言うよりは、専ら忍者の類を使用した情報収集や攪乱・乖離作戦の戦術に長けていた。
Immediately before the Seinan War he sent spies to Satsuma--on the pretext that they were returning home--in order to conduct a secret investigation both of SAIGO's supporters and the fuhei shizoku in Satsuma, plotting to create a rift within Saigo's inner circle; one sees from such examples that his abilities were showcased not so much in his general police powers as in his use of spies for intelligence work and tactics designed to throw a group into confusion or create an internal rift.

やがて貴族や官僚が蹴鞠に熱中して仕事をおろそかにしたり、娼妓が男たちの好きな蹴鞠をおぼえて客たちを店に誘う口実にしたりすることが目立ったため、明初期には蹴鞠の禁止令が出され、さらに清における禁止令で中国からはほぼ完全に姿を消した。
Soon, aristocrats and bureaucrats became so enthusiastic about kemari that duties were neglected, and prostitutes who learnt men's favorite kemari and used this as an excuse to invite customers to their shops became so conspicuous that during the early Ming Dynasty, the Chinese government issued a prohibition ordinance against kemari; this prohibition continued into the Qing Dynasty, and kemari almost disappeared completely from China.

また中国との交易に精通していたハリスは日本の一両も中国と同様に銀一両（テール/37.3グラム）と考え、1ドル銀貨は約3/4テールの量目に相当し一分銀の量目が偶然にも約1/4テールであったことも1ドル＝3分の根拠としての口実となった。
HARRIS, familiar with the trade with China, considered 1 ryo in Japan to be 1 ryo (tael; 37.3g) of silver just as 1 ryo in China, and drew his conclusion also from the fact that a one-dollar silver coin weighed about three fourths of a tael and an ichibu-gin silver coin happened to weigh about one fourth of a tael.

同時代では日蓮が批判し、後世の評価では2回目の日本侵攻の口実になった暴挙であると評価する論者と、元の2回目の対日侵攻には影響を与えなかった、あるいは国難に対しては手本にするべき好例であると肯定的に評価する『大日本史』や、頼山陽らがいる。
At the time it occurred, it was criticized by Nichiren, and in a later era, there were both arguments for and against; some criticized it as a reckless act that gave the enemy a reason for the second invasion of Japan, and others affirm it, including Sanyo RAI and 'Dainihonshi' (Great History of Japan), which states that it did not influence the Yuan's second invasion of Japan and is a good example to be followed when tackling a crisis of the nation.

しかしながら、反乱の口実にまで東大寺が利用された、ということは、東大寺建立自体が、天皇の理想を実現させる、ただそれだけのために実際の労働状況や財政事情等の問題点を度外視した途方もない、一大プロジェクトであったことをも白日の下にさらした。
However, the fact that Todai-ji Temple was even used as an excuse for a rebellion shows that construction of Todai-ji Temple was a large project aiming only to realize the Emperor's wish while totally neglecting other issues such as actual working conditions and financial affairs.

また、陰陽師を自称して霊媒や口寄せの施術を口実に各地を行脚し高額な祈祷料や占断料を請求するエセ神官・僧侶や穢多・非人集団も見られるようになって、「陰陽師」という言葉に対して極めてオカルトでうさんくさいイメージが広く定着することとなった。
Bogus Shinto priests and monks as well as groups of eta hinin (people below the regular social class established in the Edo Period) called themselves onmyoji and traveled to various regions to perform reibai (spirit medium) or kuchiyose, demanding exorbitant fees for reciting prayers or performing divinations, and a clandestine and dubious public perception of such people associated with the term 'onmyoji' became widely established.

1881年（明治14年）の秋田事件、1882年（明治15年）の福島事件、1883年（明治16年）の高田事件といったいわゆる｢激化事件｣は、明治政府が急進的民権家の政府転覆論を口実にして、地域の民権家や民権運動に対する弾圧を行ったものとされる。
So-called 'aggravated incidents' such as Akita Incident in 1881, Fukushima Incident in 1882 and Takada Incident in 1883 are assumed that the Meiji Government cracked down on local democratic activists or democratic movements on the pretext of suppressing the view of the overthrow of the government by democratic radicals.

最近野口実は『源氏と関東武士』（吉川弘文館 2007年7月）の中で、義家への鎌倉権五郎景政、三浦の平太郎為次の与力は、当時（1086年）の相模守が義家の母方の従兄弟で同じ平直方を祖父にもつ、藤原棟綱であったことも関係しはしないか、としている。
Recently, Minoru NOGUCHI guesses that KAMAKURA Gongoro Kagemasa and MIURA no Heitaro Tametsugu cooperated with Yoshiie partly because Sagami no kami in those days (1086) was FUJIWARA no Munetsuna who was their maternal cousin with the same grandfather TAIRA no Naokata in 'The Minamoto clan and Kanto Samurai' (published by Yoshikawa Kobunkan Inc. on July 2007).

もし成人が適切に自分の面倒をみきれないため罰せられとするなら、社会が強要する権利があるかのようなふりをしているその利益に貢献できる能力を、自ら傷つけるのを防ぐためという口実でなく、彼自身のためになるからという理由であって欲しいと、私は思います。
If grown persons are to be punished for not taking proper care of themselves, I would rather it were for their own sake, than under pretence of preventing them from impairing their capacity of rendering to society benefits which society does not pretend it has a right to exact.

明治4年（1871年）、地租改正の前提として全ての免税地が廃せられ、それを口実に寺院領が国家に収公された（興福寺の現在の敷地が奈良公園の中にある体裁になっているのは、興福寺の境内を収公してこれを潰して跡地を公園化する政策（後に中止）の名残である）。
In 1871, all tax-free lands were abolished as a precondition of land tax reforms, and using this as an excuse, the state confiscated temples' properties (the present Kofuku-ji Temple is located in Nara Park because of the aftereffect of a policy aimed at confiscating the temple's property, pulling down the buildings and making a park (which was cancelled later on)).

ところが、今度は全ての無税地を廃止して地租を徴収しようとする地租改正が構想として浮上すると、従来穢地として無税扱いとなっていた穢多非人の所有地からも当然地租を徴収するための大義名分が必要となり、そのために解放令がその格好の口実として白羽の矢が立てられた。
However, now that the land-tax reform rose up in order to levy land tax on all the non taxed land, there occurred the necessity legitimate reason to levy land tax on land owned by Eta and Hinin that had been treated non taxed as untouchable land as a matter of course, and Kaiho Rei (Emancipation Edict) was singled out as a suitable excuse for that reason.

一説には病気の天皇が治療のために灸を据えようとしたところ、「玉体に火傷の痕をつけるなどとんでもない」と廷臣が反対したために退位して治療を受けたと言われているが、天皇が灸治を受けた前例（高倉天皇・後宇多天皇両天皇）もあり、譲位のための口実であるとされている。
There is one theory that the Emperor wished to be administered moxibustion, but his courtier was against it, saying, 'It is out of the question that the Emperor has a burned mark on the body'; consequently, the Emperor decided to abdicate in order to have moxa cautery treatment done, but there was an example the former emperors had the same treatment done (Emperor Takakura and Emperor Gouda), so it is presumed to have been an excuse to abdicate.

そこで総監および総督らは、国事についてダニエルを訴えるべき口実を得ようとしたが、訴えるべきなんの口実も、なんのとがをも見いだすことができなかった。それは彼が忠信な人であって、その身になんのあやまちも、とがも見いだされなかったからである。 (ダニエル書 6:4)
Then the presidents and the satraps sought to find grounds against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find no grounds nor fault, because he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him. (Daniel 6:4)

この動きを知った上野・越後守護代の芳賀禅可（宇都宮氏綱の重臣）は鎌倉に上る憲顕を上野で迎え撃とうとするが逆に武蔵国苦林野で基氏の軍勢に敗退、これに口実を得た基氏軍は討伐軍を宇都宮城に差し向けるが、途中の祇園城で小山義政の仲介の下、宇都宮氏綱の弁明を入れて討伐は中止された。
Zenka HAGA (a senior vassal of Utsunomiya clan) who was Sugodai (provincial constable) of Echigo and Kazusa Provinces, being aware of this movement, planned to intercept Noriaki, heading for Kamakura, in Ueno, but was defeated by Motouji's troops at Nigabayashino, Musashi Province; making use of this incident as a reason, Motouji sent punitive forces to Utsunomiya-jo Castle, but on their way to Utsunomiya, the sending of troops for subjugation was cancelled because Motouji accepted an exucuse of Ujitsuna UTSUNOMIYA in Gion-jo Castle under mediation by Yoshimasa OYAMA.

豊臣氏当時ものとしては梵鐘が残っているが、この鐘に刻まれた「国家安康」「君臣豊楽」の銘文（京都南禅寺の禅僧文英清韓の作）が家と康を分断し豊臣を君主とするものだとして徳川家康の怒りにふれ、豊臣家滅亡のきっかけになったとされる（単に大坂の役の口実を家康が作りたかっただけという説もある）。
The temple bell of the Toyotomi clan had survived, but Ieyasu got angry at the inscription 'State's Peace and Health' (Kokka Anko) and 'Sovereign and subjects' Wealth and Pleasant' (Kunshin Horaku) engraved on the bell (the work of Bunei Seikan, a Zen priest of Nanzen-ji Temple in Kyoto), which he considered to proclaim TOYOTOMI as a monarch, and it is believed that he used this as a motive to destroy the Toyotomi clan (there is also the theory that Ieyasu simply wanted to create an excuse to initiate the Siege of Osaka).

これらの軍事行動は、イスラエルに彼らの我が民族に対する攻撃をエスカレートさせる口実を与え、また政治的或いは情報レベルにおいて、独立国家の樹立という我々の目標と我々の民族闘争を誹謗中傷しようとする企てに役に立つ武器を、彼らに供給してしまうのだ、ということを我々は繰り返し警告してきました。
We have repeatedly warned that these operations present Israel with a pretext to escalate its aggression against our people and provide it with weapons to be used politically and on the information level in its attempt to defame our national struggle and our aim of establishing our independent state.

要するに、平家を見限った甲斐源氏の加々美長清が、老母の病を口実に東国へ帰ろうと考え、それを平知盛（平清盛の四男）に申し出たところ許しては貰えなかったが、高橋判官平盛綱はその真意に気づきながらも、「家人のように抑留すべきでない」と平知盛に口添えをしてくれて、やっと知盛の許しを得たという話し。
Nagakiyo KAGAMI of Kai-Genji (Minamoto clan) saw a limit to the power of Taira clan and decided to return to Togoku (the eastern part of Japan, particularly Kanto region) by asking TAIRA no Tomomori (the fourth son of TAIRA no Kiyomori) using an excuse of the illness of his elderly mother, but his request was not granted, but TAIRA no Moritsuna, who was the Takahashi no hangan (inspector - third highest of the four administrative ranks of the ritsuryo period) advised TAIRA no Tomomori 'not to force him to stay like Kenin' despite knowing his true intention and he finally gained permission from Tomomori.

このため、安政5年（1858年）の日米修好通商条約締結の際、約8.6グラムの質量を持つ一分銀は偶然にも質量としての一両の約1/4であることから額面通り銀1/4両であり、中国の銀一両の約3/4の質量である1ドル銀貨＝一分銀3枚という日本側に不利な交換比率を主張する口実をタウンゼント・ハリスに与えることになり、小判流出の一因となった。
When the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and Japan was concluded in 1858, the fact that about 8.6-gram ichibu-gin was coincidentally equivalent to around one fourth ryo in weight, which was worth of one fourth ryo of silver at face value, provided Townsend Harris with the excuse of insisting unfavorable exchange rate for Japan that three ichibu-gin coins changed one-dollar silver coin which was about three fourth weight of Chinese one ryo of silver and led koban flow out.

その経緯については諸説あるが、正成が愛人を作ったと知った福が激怒して家を去ったとする説、勝手に乳母に応募したことに激怒した正成が離縁した説、乳母に採用されたことを知って「女房の御蔭で出世した」と言われるのを恥じて離縁状を出した説、更にこれらの出来事は全て口実で正成を家康に仕官させるために正成と福が示し合わせて離縁したとする説などがある。
There are various theories concerning the reason behind their decision to divorce: Masanari having an affair with another woman and Fuku being furious over this fact and leaving him; Masanari divorcing Fuku after finding out she had applied for the position without Masanari's permission; Masanori divorcing her since he thought he would lose face if it was said that 'he had been promoted due to his wife's success' having discovered that Fuku had got the position of wet nurse; and Masanari and Fuku pre-arranged their divorce by using the above-mentioned stories as possible grounds in order to enable Masanari to serve Ieyasu.

したがって、信長が日蓮法華宗を不当に弾圧したという歴史学上の見解には疑義が提出されているが、一方では、信長の陰謀というより、かねてから法華宗をどう諌めようか想定していた所へ、折も折、法論を契機として、それを口実にして乗っかっただけ、という指摘や、その後浄土真宗の一向一揆に対して行ったような大規模な弾圧が行われていないことより、経済的に豊かであった日蓮法華宗寺院及び信者から矢銭を調達するための策略であったとする指摘もされている。
Therefore, a doubt has been cast on the historical opinion that Nobunaga wrongfully oppressed the Nichiren Hokkeshu sect, but on the other hand, there are other opinions, including one that Nobunaga had thought he should have somehow remonstrate the the Hokkeshu sect and he found a timely opportunity in the debate and he decided to merely take advantage of that instead of laying a plot; and that as the Nichiren Hokkeshu sect and its followers were rich, Nobunaga plotted to raise his war funds from the sect and followers, which was why he did not seriously oppress the sect unlike his actions on the Ikko-ikki uprisings of the Jodo Shinshu sect (the True Pure Land Sect of Buddhism) that occurred later.