This enraged the retired Empress, who then announced that she would enter a nunnery and strip the Emperor Junnin of his sovereign authority to handle major political matters and to award honors and punishment.
これが孝謙上皇を激怒させ、上皇は出家して尼になるとともに天皇から大事・賞罰の大権を奪うことを宣言した。