From May to June of the year, according to the procedure of the sanrei-santo (legal proceedings of three questions and three answers, 三例三答) utilized in the soron (legal dispute) at that time, Nobusuke submitted a written statement four times (officially, a written statement should be submitted three times, but he submitted a forth supplementary one), and Akizane submitted three times, in order to insist on the legitimacy of their own statements and the errors of the opponent's.
この年の5月から6月にかけて当時相論で行われていた「三例三答」と呼ばれる手続きに従い、信輔は4度（本来は3度であるが補足として4度目の意見書を出した）、昭実は3度意見書を提出して自己の主張の正当性と相手の主張の誤りを主張した。