Complaint - Lie

Japanese: 嗷訴 - ごうそ

Also written as "goso", this was a movement from the mid-Heian period through the Muromachi period in which the monks and priests of major temples and shrines in the central and local areas banded together, backed by religious authority, to exact various demands on the Imperial Court and the Shogunate. After the monks of Kofuku-ji Temple entered Kyoto in 968 (Anwa 1) bearing the sacred tree of Kasuga, it reached its height during the Insei period, and the most famous petitions were those of Hieizan Sanbosshi, one of the three unfortunate cases that caused Emperor Shirakawa to lament, and the Kofuku-ji monks who coined the term Yamashina Dori. In petitions, unreasonable claims were often made, and the plaintiffs would move portable shrines and sacred trees into the capital and appear to be the gods and Buddhas themselves in court, seeking a favorable ruling by threatening divine and Buddhist punishment.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

強訴とも書き，平安時代中期より室町時代に至るまで，中央･地方の大寺社の衆徒･神人（じにん）が，宗教的権威を背景に徒党を組み朝廷や幕府にさまざまな要求を強要した行動である。968年(安和1)興福寺衆徒が春日神木を奉じて入京して以後，院政期に至り最盛を極め，白河上皇を嘆かせた三不如意の一つ比叡山山法師や，山階道理の語を生んだ興福寺衆徒の嗷訴は最も有名である。嗷訴ではしばしば理不尽な訴えが行われ，嗷訴側は神輿･神木を洛中に動座させ，神仏みずからが訴訟に赴く形をとり，神罰仏罰を盾に有利な裁許を求めた。

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