There Kanroku addressed a memorial to the empress, in which he explained that the history of Buddhism in Japan was still shorter than a century, and therefore monks and nuns had not learned the law, which caused the incident, and he thus petitioned for mercy not to punish the innocent monks and nuns except for the monk who had committed the crime.
この時観勒は上表して、日本に仏教が伝来してまだ百年にならず、僧尼が法を学んでいないことからこのようなことが起こったとし、件の僧以外は罰しないよう求めた。