It is difficult to contemplate that kuni no miyatsuko and agatanushi were stationed throughout the entire country during this peirod, and these references are thought to be rhetorical flourishes of "Nihonshoki."
この時代に全国的に国造・県主を配置したとは考えがたく、記事そのものは『日本書紀』の潤色であると考えられている。