This book provoked antipathy in scholars of Japanese classical literature, and Norinaga MOTOORI wrote a book called "Kenkyojin" against the issues stated about Emperor Jinmu and Susanoo (he was a deity who appears in Japanese mythology, but Teikan stated in his book that Susanoo had descended from a king of Silla) and insisted that Teikan's study of historical findings was very inaccurate.
これが国学者達の反感を買い、特に神武天皇や素戔鳴尊（その正体を新羅の国王であるとした）の問題については本居宣長が『鉗狂人』を著して貞幹の考証が杜撰であると主張した。