There are many historians who think that the events recorded by Chitoko and other participants served as the material sources of the Jinshin War when the writers of the Nihon Shoki were composing its passage.
智徳ら参加者が書いた記録が、『日本書紀』が壬申の乱を執筆するときの材料になったと考える歴史学者が多い。