This scene best represents the difference between the middle/upper class and the peasants/serfs in Japanese society until the Meiji period. In this scene there is a juxtaposition between the monk, who used this letter to gather the best hunters in the land, and the women (sans Eboshi), who were sold into sexual slavery through the brothel system. The monk and the hunters are educated and therefore know that according to Japanese Shinto belief that he is a descendant of the Sun Goddess Amaterasu. On the other hand the women are uneducated and don't know that the emperor exists, because they don't know that the Emperor is a descendant of a goddess. The Emperor of Japan continued to claim extreme respect from the vast majority of the Japanese people, as evidenced through the letter being able to collect the massive number of hunters and supplies that were used in the capture of the Deer-god's head.

Suggested Further Reading: The Origins of Japan's Medieval World: Courtiers, Clerics, Warriors, and Peasants in the Fourteenth Century