However, even if this can be understood as going southward on the sea rounding Kyushu, it leads to the location of Yamatai in south-central Kyushu, which means that Yamatai would have been located in the same place as Kumaso in a later era.
しかし、これを九州を大回りして水行し南下する意味に捉えたとしても、邪馬台国の位置は中南部九州内陸に求めることとなり、後の熊襲の地に邪馬台国があることになる。