The document was drawn up by the lord of the Koriyama Domain Masakatsu HONDA and the lord of the Takatori Domain Iemasa UEMURA who had investigated the roads of the boundary of Kiwa Province by the order of the shogunate; and it recorded Kohechi in the name of 'Naka-michisuji' (literally 'middle route').
これは郡山藩主本多政勝と高取藩主植村家政が幕命を受けて紀和国境のルートを調査した文書だが、この中には「中道筋」なる名で小辺路がとり上げられている。