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.'
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。