恩赦

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 恩赦, read おんしゃ, means a pardon or amnesty that removes or reduces punishment.
• Basic usage: The examples use it for a royal amnesty and an amnesty marking an accession in a novel.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Amnesty and release
  • 恩赦 is the act of granting clemency, while 釈放 is releasing a person from confinement.
• Cause in the example
  • The second example's 恩赦で囚人が釈放された means that prisoners were released because of an amnesty. で links the release to its cause.