The government-manufactured literature such as "Kojiki" (The Records of Ancient Matters) and "Nihonshoki" (Chronicles of Japan) were criticized hand in hand with the advancement of the modern historical science, and this manuscript which seems to have been based on the old historical materials before "Kojiki" and "Nihonshoki" drew people's attention as a highly reliable classic.
近代史学の発展に伴い、官製の『古事記』や『日本書紀』などの文献批判が行われ、記紀以前の古い史料が基礎になっていると思料される本書が、信用度の高い古典として脚光を浴びてきた。