Other people insist that if the law was not important, Tsunayoshi would not have left such a will and there was no need for the Confucian scholar Hakuseki ARAI to declare the abolition of the law.
重要でないのなら、綱吉の遺言もある筈もなく、わざわざ儒学者の白石が廃止を宣言する必要もなかったとする見解もある。