In another theory, Shimane is put forward as home city of the Kamo family based on the fact that there is a description of Kamo-no-kamube, Toneri-no-sato, O County in "Izumo-fudoki," and that there is a Kamo-jinja Shrine in Yasugi City in Tobu Izumo (Eastern Izumo and present-day Shimane Prefecture), where Kotoshiro nushi, the ancestral god Hitokoto nushi under a different name, is worshipped.
また、出雲風土記では意宇郡舎人郷賀茂神戸とあり、また現在の島根県安来市には賀茂神社があり、祖神である一言主の同一神、言代主の活躍地である東部出雲に属することから、ここを本貫とする説もある。