For this, the priests are said to have answered, fearing the influential power of Ieyasu, that the phrase of 国家安康 in the inscription considered being extremely impious, because it damaged the name of Ieyasu (according to Tokugawa Jikki (a collection of official records of the Edo bakufu).
その結果、五山の僧侶たちは家康の影響力を恐れて、「みなこの銘中に国家安康の一句、御名を犯す事尤不敬とすべし。」（徳川実紀）と返答したという。