Three Chapters of Law - Hosansho

Japanese: 法三章 - ほうさんしょう

It's an analogy for politics where the laws are very simple and people aren't punished needlessly.

[Example] The magistrates of the past had even more power than the current superintendent general of the Metropolitan Police, and apparently settled cases with a strict legal concept. [Nomura Kodo * Remembering the Edo Period | 1955]

[Origin] " Records of the Grand Historian --From an episode that appears in the "Records of Emperor Gaozu." In China at the end of the third century B.C. Qin core When the dynasty fell, the military commander who captured the capital city, Liu dragon country law He was grateful to the people for abolishing the Qin dynasty's complicated laws, which caused suffering to the people, and replacing them with "only three chapters of the law" that only punished murder, assault, and theft.

Source : Dictionary of Idioms and Proverbs About Dictionary of Idioms and Proverbs Information

Japanese:

法律がとても簡単で、むやみに人々を罰しようとしない政治のたとえ。

[使用例] 昔の奉行は、いまの警視総監よりもさらに権力が強く、法三章な概念で裁判を片付けていったものらしい［野村胡堂＊江戸の昔を偲ぶ｜1955］

[由来] 「史記―高祖紀」に出て来るエピソードから。紀元前三世紀の終わりの中国、秦しん王朝が滅亡する際のこと。その都を攻め落とした武将、劉りゅう邦ほうは、繁雑で人々を苦しめていた秦の法律を廃止して、殺人と傷害と窃盗を処罰するだけの「法は三章のみ（法律は、三つの条文だけだ）」としたので、人々に感謝されたということです。

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