The life of the
dankas were later made even more difficult by a document that greatly expanded a temple's powers over those affiliated to it. Purporting to be a
bakufu law regulating in great detail the certification of religious affiliation process, it appeared around 1735 and had thereafter large circulation all over Japan. Dated 1613 and called , usually abbreviated to just ), it is demonstrably a forgery, probably created by the temples themselves, whose interests it serves. That the document is a fake is proven beyond doubt by the fact that it lists among the forbidden religions not only Christianity, but also the and subschools of the
Nichiren sect. Since the two schools were outlawed respectively in 1669 and 1691, the date of issue must have been deliberately misstated. The likely reason this particular date was chosen is that it is the year in which
Tokugawa Ieyasu's was issued, and because the following year temples were ordered to start issuing
terauke. The document is often found in temples and collections all over the country and it appears to have been believed genuine even by most
Meiji period historians. The Gojōmoku, which gives temples additional power over parishioners, is mentioned occasionally by temple registries and, when a
danka did not meet its conditions, the temple certification was not issued. Its provisions caused considerable problems between
danka and temples. The document first defined four duties of the
danka. • Duty to visit the temple on several yearly occasion. Failure to make the visits could cause the removal of the
danka's name from the registry. • Duty to perform two services on the day of the ancestor memorial service. Failure to provide adequate entertainment for the priest meant being branded as a Christian. • Duty to make the family temple perform all memorial and funerary services. • Duty of anyone capable of walking to be present at memorial services for ancestors. It then gave five rights to its temple. • A
danka had to perform certain acts in favor of the temple, including making offerings and providing free labor. Failure to do so meant being branded as a Fuju-fuse sect member. • A
danka had to obey its temple and give money to its priests. • Regardless of how long a
danka group had been faithful, it was always to be subject to religious investigation to determine the possible emergence of heresy. • After someone's death, just looking at the corpse the priest could determine what the defunct's true religion had been. • The
danka was always to follow his temple's orders. == Consequences of the
danka system==