In and after the Middle Ages, the Ichoku was understood as 'punishing all the violations against judgements issued by court nobles' (according to the book called "Satamirensho"), and by people, it is ambiguously thought to have gone against an Emperor's command.
中世以後においては、「公家御下知違背事也」（『沙汰未練書』）と解され、漠然と天皇の命令に逆らうことと考えられる。