"Sonpi Bunmyaku" (a text compiled in the fourteenth century that records the lineages of the aristocracy) states that the family tree of the Akechi clan, a branch family of the Toki clan, was also connected to the Kida clan.
また、『尊卑分脈』では土岐氏の庶流明智氏の系譜を木田氏に連ねるものともしている。