On the other hand, based on references to her younger brother's support of the government, there is also a view that Yamatai had a binary system of government in which shaman Himiko conducted the rituals and men delivered the real administration.
一方で、弟が政治を補佐したという記述から、巫女の卑弥呼が神事を司り、実際の統治は男子が行う二元政治とする見方もある。