Renjun excommunicated Rengo and his family in the name of Shonyo and furthermore allowed the followers to execute them as traitors (one theory holds that Renjun had deep resentment against Rengo because Renjun didn't get promoted in the sect as fast as Rengo although Renjun was Rengo's older maternal brother).
蓮淳は証如の名において蓮悟とその家族を破門し、更に反逆者として門徒が彼らを処刑する事を許した（一説には蓮淳は蓮悟の同母兄でありながら、宗門内での出世が弟より遅れていた事を深く恨んでいたとも言われる）。