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English: Around this period, like the Nazis in Germany and the Benito MUSSOLINI government in Italy, Fascist systems were established, and because the Tripartite Pact between Japan, Germany, and Italy was formed, the system of Imperial Household at this time was called Tennosei Fascism.
Japanese: この時代には、ドイツのナチス政権やイタリアのベニート・ムッソリーニ政権といったファシズム体制が成立し、日独伊三国同盟が結ばれたことから、この時期の日本の皇室制度は天皇制ファシズムとも呼ばれている。
English: After the end of the World War II, between the countries of the UN, the opinion to punish the Emperor for militarism and abolish Tennosei was strong, but because the Japanese government strongly advocated the preservation of the Emperor, General Douglas MACARTHUR and the General Headquarters of the Allied Powers (GHQ/SCAP), to smoothly advance the administration of occupation and as a bulwark against communism, took the direction that the Imperial Household system should be preserved.
Japanese: 第二次世界大戦の終戦後、連合国（UN）の間では、軍国主義の一因として天皇を処罰し、天皇制を廃止すべきだという意見が強かったが、日本政府がその維持を強く唱えたこともあり、ダグラス・マッカーサー元帥、連合国軍最高司令官総司令部(GHQ/SCAP)は、日本の占領行政を円滑に進めるため、また共産主義に対する防波堤としても皇室制度は存続させるべきだという方向性を取った。
English: There were strong opinions to pursue the responsibility of the war for Emperor Showa, but because of America's diplomatic stratagem, the occupation authorities decided not to do so.
Japanese: 昭和天皇の戦争責任についても追及すべきとの意見が強くあったが、アメリカの外交的策略により、占領当局は追及しないこととした。
English: Various opinions about the Emperor arose in between the people at that time, and even Sokichi TSUDA and others, who had suffered from Kokoku Shikan (Imperial view of Japanese history), declared not to deny the existence of the Emperor.
Japanese: 当時、民間には、天皇をめぐる各種の意見が生じたが、戦前、皇国史観のために被害を受けた津田左右吉なども天皇自体の存在は否定しないと言明した。
English: Other than that, opinion advocating abolishment of the Emperor and theory which states the revision of the name of era by the abdication of Emperor Showa and enthronement of the Crown Prince is appropriate, were advocated by Shigeru NANBARA, Soichi SASAKI, Yasuhiro NAKASONE, and others, but were backed by only some of the people.
Japanese: その外、天皇の廃位を唱える見解や昭和天皇の退位と皇太子の即位により元号を改正するのが妥当とする説も、南原繁・佐々木惣一・中曽根康弘らが唱えたが、一部に止まった。
English: Emperor Showa showed his intension to abdicate at first, but because of strong opposing opinions, which suggest that abdication would admit the responsibility of the war, withdrew his intention.
Japanese: 昭和天皇自身は退位の意向を示したが、かえって戦争責任を認めることになるとして周囲から強い反対があり、撤回した。
English: After this, a photograph with Generall MACARTHUR, the Commander for the Allied Powers, and Emperor Showa standing side by side (at right) was placed in the newspapers.
Japanese: この後、連合国総司令官のマッカーサー元帥と昭和天皇が並んで写っている写真（右）が新聞に掲載された。
English: The photograph of the Emperor, who was considered as Arahitogami and his photographs were called 'Goshin-ei' (honorific name for the photograph of the Emperor) and so on, standing straight without moving next to the relaxed General, placed commonly in newspapers shocked the common people.
Japanese: 今まで現人神とされ、写真も「御真影」等と呼ばれていた天皇が、しかも肩の力を抜いた姿の元帥の隣に直立不動の姿勢で、普通に新聞に写っていることは国民の衝撃を呼んだ。
English: Further, the Emperor announced the declaration as a human, and inside that, so called 'Ningensengen' (declaration as human), which states that 'the Emperor is human and is not Arahitogami,' was declared.
Japanese: さらには、人間宣言を発表し、このなかで“天皇は現人神ではなく人間である”といういわゆる「人間宣言」もなされた。
English: There was a theory stating that this declaration, seen as denying that, "Japanese people are a perfect race in position to rule the world," which was promoted to the people before and during the war through textbooks of 'Shushin' (moral training), etc., and having a 'Charter Oath of Five Articles' declared at the beginning of Shosho (Imperial edict), not necessarily denied completely the way the Emperor existed in the past.
Japanese: しかしこの宣言は、戦前戦中に「修身」の教科書などで国民が意識していた“日本国民は優秀な民族であり、世界の支配者たるべき立場にある”という概念を否定する文脈にあること、詔書の冒頭において「五箇条の御誓文」を掲げていることに見られるように、かならずしも従来の天皇のありかたそのものを否定するものでは無かったとする説もあった。
English: However, by opening "Sokkin Nisshi" (the diary of a close associate of the Emperor) by Deputy Grand Chamberlain of the Imperial Household, Michio KINOSHITA, to the public, it was made clear that the Emperor denied himself as 'Arahitogami,' and the scholar insisted such opinions have disappeared.
Japanese: しかし、木下道雄侍従次長の『側近日誌』の公開によって、天皇が「現人神」（あらひとがみ）であることを否定するものであったことが明白になり、そのような主張をする学者はいなくなった。
English: Emperor Showa, after declaring himself as a human, started Junko (visit by the Emperor) to various places in Japan, but Okinawa, where the Battle of Okinawa took place causing great casualties, and was placed under direct control of the Allied Forces, apart from Japan at that time, was not included.
Japanese: 昭和天皇は人間宣言をした後、日本全国各地への巡幸をはじめたが、多大な犠牲者を出した沖縄戦が行われ当時日本と切り離され連合軍の直接統治下におかれた沖縄は、対象とされなかった。
English: This 'Junko' was welcomed in each place, but in 1947, because welcoming the Emperor had awoken apprehension about the revival of the Emperor's political powers, movements were made by GHQ to stop Junko for a year (there were many people hoisting national flags even though it was prohibited by GHQ).
Japanese: この「巡幸」は各地で歓迎をもって迎えられたが、1947年にはその歓迎の盛り上がりぶりに、天皇の政治権力復活を危惧したGHQによって巡幸の1年間中止が決定されるなどの動きもあった（国旗の掲揚はGHQにより禁じられていたが、多数の民衆が掲揚していたため）。
English: Further, it is said that there was also anticipation of people forming a consciousness of the Emperor as the new symbol to be respected as an object of this Junko.
Japanese: なお、この巡幸の目的には、新たな象徴天皇崇敬の国民の意識形成があったともいわれる。
English: It seemed that the visit to Okinawa was Emperor Showa's dearest wish, and was mentioned during his illness in his later years.
Japanese: 沖縄行幸は昭和天皇の悲願であったようであり、晩年の病に際しそのことに触れられている。
English: During the Imperial funeral of Emperor Showa, the heads and leaders of 163 countries of the world, and concerned people of 17 international organizations attended.
Japanese: 昭和天皇の大葬の礼の際には、世界の163か国の国家元首や首脳と17の国際機関の関係者が参列に訪れた。
English: Also, when Imperial Prince Akihito was enthroned as Emperor, many leaders of countries around the world attended.
Japanese: また、明仁親王の天皇即位の際にも世界各国の国家元首が多く参列に訪れた。
English: There is an episode (from the book by Kenichi TAKEMURA) that USA Gerald Rudolph Ford's legs trembled when he stood in front of Emperor Showa.
Japanese: アメリカ合衆国のジェラルド・R・フォードは、昭和天皇の前に立った時には足が震えたというエピソード（竹村健一著より）もある。
English: On the other hand, Emperor Showa is seen with hatred from the countries such as Netherlands and Great Britain, who were enemies during World War II.
Japanese: 一方、昭和天皇は、第二次世界大戦での敵国関係にあったオランダ・イギリス等からは、憎悪の目でみられる事もある。
English: There was a time when Emperor Showa visited the Netherlands, where Molotov cocktails were thrown, etc. by some of people as a protest.
Japanese: 昭和天皇がオランダに訪問した際に、一部の人々から抗議活動として火炎瓶等を投げつけられる事があった。
English: Since the male Imperial Family was not born from the birth of Imperial Prince Akishino-no-miya Fumihito in 1965 through the birth of Imperial Prince Hisahito in 2006, males in the male line, who could succeed the Imperial Throne, is in short supply, and there is a possibility of the extinction of the Imperial line because heir to the Imperial Throne, as regulated in the Imperial House Act, no longer exists.
Japanese: 1965年の秋篠宮文仁親王の誕生から2006年の悠仁親王の誕生まで男性皇族が誕生していなかったため、皇位を継ぐべき男系男子が不足しており、皇室典範に定める皇位継承者が存在しなくなり、皇統が断絶する可能性が出てきた。
English: Because of that, disputes have broken out over whether to revise the Imperial House Act and give a female in female line the right of succession to the Imperial Throne, or keep the male line of succession by returning the former Imperial Family as the Imperial Family again.
Japanese: そのため、皇室典範を改正し、女子や女系の者にも皇位継承権を与えるか、旧皇族を皇籍に復帰させるなどして男系継承を維持するかの論争が起きている。
English: Since in the Constitution of the Empire of Japan, the Emperor was in a position to control the right to rule, but against that, in the Constitution of Japan, is a symbol of Japan and the unity of the Japanese people and has also adopted the principle of sovereignty with the people, disputes over whether or not the national structure of Japan changed by the establishment of the Constitution of Japan, broke out.
Japanese: 大日本帝国憲法では、天皇は統治権の総攬者とされていたのに対し、日本国憲法では日本国・日本国民統合の象徴とされ、かつ国民主権原理を採用したため、日本国憲法の制定により日本の国体が変わったか否かについて起きた論争。
English: Drafts of Constitutional revision by the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, by Mr. Hatoyama of the Democratic Party of Japan, by Mr. Ozawa of the Democratic Party of Japan, and by the Institute for International Policy Studies, which has 6 government offices as its authorities in charge and in which former Prime Minister Nakasone belongs, suggests the Emperor to become to be the head of the nation.
Japanese: 自民党憲法改正試案、民主党鳩山氏憲法改正試案、民主党小沢氏憲法改正試案、6省庁を主務官庁とする中曽根元総理属する財団法人世界平和研究所憲法改正試案が、国家元首を天皇にすべしと提言している。
English: As for the Constitution Research Council of the House of Representatives and the Constitution Research Council of the House of Councilors, which both neither having the right to propose a bill, it is still argued about the position of the Emperor, and they have not reached a conclusion yet.
Japanese: 議案提出権を有しない衆議院憲法調査会、及び議案提出権を有しない参議院憲法調査会では天皇の地位に関して現在も議論中であり、結論は出ていない。
English: Fukai-no-Joten/ Fukaijoten (Irreversible Permanent Code/ Irreversible Eternal Code) is a law frequently referred to in the enthronement address of Japanese successive emperors since the year 707, and is said to have been established by Emperor Tenchi (his name is also pronounced "Tenji").
Japanese: 不改常典（ふかいのじょうてん）は、707年以降の日本の天皇の即位の詔で度々参照される法で、天智天皇が定めたとされるものである。
English: Based on the words of Emperor Tenchi that says 'the law established and promulgated as a permanent code that should not be irreversible,' it is referred as Fukai-no-Joten/ Fukaijoten (Irreversible Permanent Code/ Ireversible Eternal Code) in academic society.
Japanese: 天智天皇が「改めるまじき常の典と定め賜ひ敷き賜ひた法」というくだりから、学界で不改常典と呼ばれる。
English: This code was not correctively compiled in the "Nihonshoki" (Chronicles of Japan), but appeared as a reference in the words of the posterity emperors after "Shoku-Nihongi" (Chronicles of Japan II).
Japanese: この法は、天智天皇の事績をまとめて記した『日本書紀』には記されず、『続日本紀』以下で後の天皇が言及する形で現れる。
English: The first reference to the code appeared in the imperial edict Empress Genmei, and since then, the code was cited frequently until the Edo period.
Japanese: その最初は元明天皇の即位詔で、以後江戸時代に至るまで度々言及された。
English: Although in historical materials, there is no specific citation to the contents of the code, it is positioned as an extremely important law, and attracts the attention of historians.
Japanese: 史料に具体的内容が引かれていないが、非常に重要な法と位置付けられており、歴史学者の関心を引いている。
English: There are numerous theories about the origin of the contents, including the direct line imperial succession code theory, which advocates that it is a code for transcending the Imperial Throne from father to son, and there is no established theory.
Japanese: 内容に関しては、父から子に皇位を伝える直系皇位継承法説などおびただしい学説が立てられ、定説はない。
English: Fukai-no-Joten/ Fukaijoten' is not its formal name, but a historical term derived from one phrase used in the imperial edicts upon enthronement.
Japanese: 「不改常典」は法の正式名称ではなく、この法に言及した即位詔の一節からとられた歴史学用語である。
English: In the edicts after Emperor Kanmu, the words 'Fukai-no-Joten/ Fukaijoten' is not found, but cited as 'the law that Emperor Tenchi established for the first time.'
Japanese: 桓武天皇以降は「不改常典」の語がなくなり、「天智天皇が初め定めた法」として言及される。
English: There is no citation for this code in the section about Emperor Tenchi of "Nihonshoki," but there are in various written materials referring to the edicts of the emperors after the period of 'Nihonshoki.'
Japanese: この法は『日本書紀』の天智天皇のくだりに見えず、『続日本紀』以降の諸書が引く天皇の詔の中で言及される。
English: It was first cited in the imperial edict upon enthronement of Empress Gensho, and since then, it is exclusively found in the imperial edicts upon enthronement of the successive emperors or in the form of reference to an imperial edict upon abdication of a certain former emperor used in the imperial edict upon enthronement of the successor.
Japanese: 最初は元正天皇の即位詔で、他もすべて即位詔か、即位詔の中で引用される前天皇の譲位詔の中に現れる。
English: No edict presents a concrete content, but touches it in a context such as; the former emperor's enthronement and its reign is endorsed by Fukai-no-Joten/ Fukaijoten, the Imperial Throne should be handed down according to Fukai-no-Joten/ Fukaijoten, or the Imperial Throne should be ascended according to the law established by Emperor Tenchi.
Japanese: どの詔もその具体的内容を示さず、前天皇の即位と統治は不改常典によるものだ、不改常典に従って皇位を伝えよ、天智天皇が定めた法に従って皇位につけ、といった文脈で伝えられる。
English: Fukai-no-Joten/ Fukaijoten had been considered as the laws formulated in the Taika Reforms or Omi-Ryo (Omi Administrative Code), from the Edo period to the first half of the 20th century, however at present this theory is not supported.
Japanese: 不改常典は、江戸時代から20世紀前半まで、大化改新の諸法か近江令のことだと考えられていたが、現在この説は支持されていない。
English: The most widely-accepted theory is the direct line imperial succession code theory that Koyata IWASAKI presented in 1951 in his article 'The permanent code established by his majesty Emperor Tenchi,' in which he argues that this is the law that determinates the imperial succession rule, eliminating collateral successions between brothers.
Japanese: 歴史学者の間で最も有力なものは1951年に岩橋小弥太が論文「天智天皇の立て給ひし常の典」で提唱した直系皇位継承法説で、兄弟継承を排して天皇の子への皇位継承を定めた法だとするものである。
English: Since then, corrections, criticisms, and the presentation of new theories have been successively presented to date, and still various theories are argued.
Japanese: 以後、これに対する修正や批判、新説の提唱が続き、多くの学説が並立する状況が続いている。
English: Among the other imperial succession theories, the theory of lineal descendent hereditary imperial succession law theory, in which the throne is exclusively ascended to the son born from the legal wife, that of the throne abdication law, which establishes the succession of the throne by abdication, and the crown prince theory, in which the succession is undertaken by pointing the crown prince, can be found.
Japanese: 皇位継承とする説としては他に、特に正妻から生まれた子に伝えるという嫡系皇位継承法説、譲位によって皇位を伝えるという譲位法説、皇太子を立てて継承させるという皇太子制説がある。
English: Among the theories that argue the code's indifference with the imperial succession, a theory that it is a law to establish the regent of the Fujiwara clan, theory that it is a law to establish an imperial autocrat similar to that of the emperors in the Sui and Tang periods, and the theory that it is a norm that establishes the imperial family's successive rule, can be found.
Japanese: 皇位継承と無関係とするものには、藤原氏が天皇家を輔佐することを定めた法だとする説、天皇を隋唐の皇帝のような専制君主と定めた法だとする説、天皇家が代々統治する原則を定めたとする皇統君臨説などがある。
English: In addition, there are interpretations made based on the combination of various theories by period, in which a wide range of theories are found, from the theory that insists on the existence of another totally different law to the theory that argues that it is a law which had gradually became a dead letter.
Japanese: さらに、以上の諸説と組み合わさるものとして、時代による違いの解釈があり、まったく別の法があるとする説から、一つの法がしだいに形骸化したとする説まで濃淡がある。
English: Another is the pretext theory that presents a hypothesis that Fukai-no-Joten/ Fukaijoten was not established by Emperor Tenchi, but it was posteriorly written under the pretense that it was set up by Emperor Tenchi.
Japanese: 不改常典は本当は天智天皇の作ではなく、後に作られて天智制定と偽ったのだとする仮託説もある。
English: Although the theories surrounding Fukai-no-Joten/ Fukaijoten are mere direct interpretation of a paragraph of imperial edicts, they can lead us to different views on the political system during that period and its transition.
Japanese: 不改常典をめぐる諸学説は、直接的には詔の一節の解釈にすぎないが、これを足がかりに当時の政治体制とその変化について異なる理解が開かれる。
English: For the imperial edict upon enthronement available at present, there exist only a part of the edicts of Emperor Monmu and his successive emperors in the later time, archived in "Shoku-Nihongi" (Chronicles of Japan II), and except for some cases, they are written in Senmyo (imperial edict) texts.
Japanese: 今日我々が読むことができる即位詔は『続日本紀』が採録した文武天皇以降のものの一部で、一部例外を除き宣命体という独特の文体で記されている。
English: Among the imperial edicts upon enthronement, some of them have no reference to Fukai-no-Joten/ Fukaijoten, and therefore, many emperors' edicts are not documented today.
Japanese: 即位詔の中に不改常典への言及がない例があり、即位詔が今日まで伝わらない天皇も多い。
English: However, around at the Heian period, the citation to the code (in the edict) was established as a rule, and it had been practiced until the Edo period.
Japanese: しかし、おおよそ平安時代には言及が慣例化し、江戸時代まで続いたことが伺える。
English: This word in Chinese characters is suffixed with Kana in some cases and this means that originally the word should not be read in the Chinese-style (On-Yomi).
Japanese: 送り仮名がつけて記されたものがあるので、本来は音読みするものではない。
English: The word 'Fukai-no-Joten/ Fukaijoten' is not the name of the code itself, but the word extracted by present scholars from a part of a long adjective phrase qualifying a certain code whose name is not mentioned, as follows: '[the code] that His majesty Oyamatoneko no Sumera Mikoto (referring to an emperor), who resides in the highly respectable and noble Omi-no-Otsu-no-Miya Palace, established as the irreversible and eternal code, which should not be modified as long as the universe exists and as eternal as the sun and the moon shed light.'
Japanese: また、法の名称そのものではなく、何か名前が出てこない法の形容部分である「かけまくもかしこき近江の大津の宮にあめのしたしらしめし大倭根子天皇の天地とともに長く日月とともに遠く改めるまじき常の典と立てたまひ敷きたまへる」というような長い形容の中から、現代の学者が一部を抜き出して使う語が「不改常典」である。
English: In the imperial edicts upon enthronement of Emperor Kanmu and later, it is mentioned as the law that Emperor Tenchi established for the first time, but the adjective phrase, 'which should not be modified,' is omitted.
Japanese: 桓武天皇以降の詔では「改めるまじき」という形容なしに、単に天智天皇が初め定めた法とある。
English: The argument that the name and form of Fukai-no-Joten/ Fukaijoten do not follow the requisites of Ritsuryo (the legal codes of the Nara and Heian periods) itself can be developed as an independent theme of one article.
Japanese: 不改常典の真の名称と形式は、律令ではないという説で一個の論題になる。
English: According to the popular theories, it had no established form and it seems to have been transferred verbally, however, there are such theories that advocate: i) it was equipped with a refined form comparable to Ritsuryo, ii) it was handed down from one emperor to another in a confidential manor, and iii) it might have been a vague norm that permitted a wide range of interpretation.
Japanese: 定まった形式を持たず、口頭で宣べ伝えられたものだろうとするのが通説だが、律令と並べて遜色ない堂々たる形式を備えた法だとする説、天皇から次の天皇へ秘密に伝えられたとする説、解釈によってどうとでもとれるような漠然とした規定だったのではないかとする説もある。
English: The code first conceived and established - cited by Emperor Kanmu, Emperor Junna, Emperor Ninmyo, Emperor Seiwa, Emperor Yozei, Emperor Koko, Emperor Gosanjo, Emperor Antoku, Emperor Shijo, Emperor Gokashiwabara, and Emperor Nakamikado.
Japanese: 初め賜ひ定め賜へる法-桓武天皇、淳和天皇、仁明天皇、清和天皇、陽成天皇、光孝天皇、後三条天皇、安徳天皇、四条天皇、後柏原天皇、中御門天皇
English: The first appearance in the materials is found in the imperial edict upon enthronement of Empress Genmei dated on August 22, 707, compiled in the "Shoku-Nihongi" (Chronicles of Japan II), and the reference to Fukai-no-Joten/ Fukaijoten appears in two places.
Japanese: 文献上の初見は『続日本紀』の慶雲4年（707年）7月壬子（17日）条にある元明天皇の即位詔で、不改常典が2箇所で現れる。
English: Genmei says that this was done based on 'the code which should not be modified as long as the universe exists and as long as the sun and the moon shed light.'
Japanese: これは天智天皇が「天地とともに長く日月とともに遠く、改めない常の典と立て賜い、敷き賜える法」にもとづくのだと元明は言う。
English: In continuation, Genmei expresses his intention to undertake the governance of the nation (Osukuni amenoshita no matsurikoto) counting on the assistance of her grand ministers and hundreds of officials and states "to hand down the reign by securing the lay of the nation's governance, which is also irreversible like the universe and deemed as the permanent code, without decline nor oscillation.'
Japanese: ついで元明は王臣・百官人の輔佐で食国天下の政事を行いたいとしてから、「天地と共に長く改めない常の典と立て賜える食国の法も、傾くことなく動くことなく渡り去るように」と述べた。
English: Jito as well as Genmei are empresses, and Jito is Monmu's grandmother and Genmei is Monmu's mother.
Japanese: 持統・元明はともに女帝で、持統は文武の祖母、元明は文武の母にあたる。
English: Therefore, Fukai-no-Joten/ Fukaijoten mentioned in the former part is the law that justifies the succession of the throne from the grandmother to the grandchild and their shared rule, while Fukai-no-Joten/ Fukaijoten mentioned in the latter part are noted as the law of the nation's governance, and is used in a context in which the empress wishes it's effect to continue.
Japanese: よって、前段の不改常典は祖母から孫への譲位と共同統治を正当化する法であり、後段の不改常典は食国の法でその継続を願うという文脈である。
English: 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."
Japanese: 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。
English: Although Genmyo is Shomu's grandmother and Gensho is his aunt, both of them call Shomu 'my son' in the imperial edict.
Japanese: 元明は聖武の祖母、元正は聖武の叔母だが、この宣命ではともに聖武を「わが子」と呼んでいる。
English: When Emperor Shomu abdicated the throne, he touched on the circumstances at the time of his enthronement, and referred to Fukai-no-Joten/ Fukaijoten.
Japanese: 聖武天皇は譲位の際にも、自らの即位の事情に触れて不改常典に言及した。
English: In the edict, Empress Gensho says that Emperor Tenchi ordered her to take the faculty of Imperial Sun Succession (Amatsuhitsugi) to the Imperial Throne (Takamikura) 'based on the spirit of the code firstly conceived and established,' and Empress Gensho ordered Seimu to succeed.
Japanese: 詔では、天智天皇が「改めない常の典と初め賜い定め賜える法の随に」天日嗣高御座の業を継げと、元正天皇が聖武に命じたという。
English: She says that although she herself took the Imperial Throne, the work is harsh on her health, and decided to abdicate the Imperial Throne to his son 'based on the spirit of the lay.'
Japanese: 自分はこれに従って皇位についたが、身体が耐えないので、「法の随（まにま）に」、すなわち法にしたがって、皇位をわが子に授ける、という。
English: There two theories of interpretation about the phrase 'based on the spirit of the lay' mentioned in the latter part without any adjectives; one advocates that this should be interpreted as Fukai-no-Joten/ Fukaijoten according to the context, and the other argues that this phrase is commonly used in other documents as well and it does not mean a certain specific law.
Japanese: 後の方の修飾語なしの「法の随に」については、文脈上不改常典のことと理解すべきだとする説と、他にも見える常套句で特定の法を指したものではないとする説とがある。
English: Since then, Fukai-no-Joten/ Fukaijoten had not been mentioned for a while, but it appeared again in the imperial edict upon the enthronement of Emperor Kanmu.
Japanese: 不改常典はこの後しばらく言及されないが、桓武天皇の即位詔で再登場した。
English: Its outline is as follows: 'the emperor (Emperor Konin in concrete) ordered me to take the faculty of Imperial Sun Succession (Amatsuhitsugi) to the Imperial Throne (Takamikura) according to the law that Emperor Tenchi conceived and established for the first time.
Japanese: その大意は「天皇（具体的には光仁天皇）が天日嗣高座の業を天智天皇の初め定める法に従って受けよと自分に命じた。
English: I myself was afraid and dared not to proceed nor retreat, however since it is a order of the emperor, I take the Throne,'
Japanese: 自分は恐れて進むも退くもできなくなったが、天皇の命なので即位する」というものである。
English: Since this edict, the expression 'the law first conceived and established' by Emperor Tenchi started to be used, while the word 'Fukai-no-Joten/ Fukaijoten' had disappeared.
Japanese: この詔以降、天智天皇が「初め賜い定め賜える法」になり、「不改常典」の句がない。
English: Then, some theories argue that 'the law conceived and established for the first time' is a code modified from the original Fukai-no-Joten/ Fukaijoten, while others insist that it is a completely different one.
Japanese: そこで、これ以降の「初め定める法」は本来の不改常典から変質したと考える説や、まったく別物だとする説もある。
English: The form of Emperor Kanmu's edict was employed in the later successive emperors in the identical context and with almost the same wording.
Japanese: 桓武天皇の形式は、同じ文脈とほぼ同じ語法でその後の天皇に踏襲された。
English: All of the following edicts mention about 'the law that Emperor Tenchi established for the first time' in almost the same form: 'Gosanjo-in Gosokui-ki' which contains the imperial edicts upon enthronement of Emperor Gosanjo, 'Antoku-tenno Gosokui-ki' which contains that of Emperor Antoku, 'Shijo-in Gosokui-ki' which contains that of Emperor Shijo, 'Shugai-ki' which contains that of Emperor Gokashiwabara, and 'Goshodan-ki' which contains that of Nakamikado.
Japanese: 「御三条院即位記」が載せる後三条天皇の即位詔、「安徳天皇御即位記」が載せる安徳天皇の即位詔、「四条院御即位記」四条天皇の即位詔、「拾芥記」が載せる後柏原天皇の即位詔、「御昇壇記」が載せる中御門天皇の即位詔は、ほぼ同じ形で天智天皇の初め定める法を載せている。
English: Since after the Heian period, it is noteworthy that a boilerplate collection called "Choya Gunsai" (Collected Official and Unofficial Writings) carries the examples of sentences for writing an imperial edict upon enthronement.
Japanese: 平安時代以降で注目すべきは、『朝野群載』という模範文例集に即位詔の例文が載せられたことである。
English: A certain conformity found in the writing pattern of the edicts might be due to the fact that the edicts were written following such model phrases.
Japanese: 文面がほぼ同じ形で固定したのは、このような文例に従って詔が作られたためと考えられる。