In recent years the assertion that it was completed after the Jokyu Disturbance has been advocated by Shigeru YUGE and others, claiming that Nakaraibon, which seems to preserve the original form most among the existent manuscripts of "Hogen Monogatari," quoted a text from "Rokudai Shojiki (a story of the victory of six generations)," which was written in 1223 or 1224.
近年では、『保元物語』現存伝本中、もっとも古態をとどめていると思われる半井本などに、貞応2年（1223年）、ないしは３年の成立である『六代勝事記』の文章が引かれているとする弓削繁の論などによって、承久の変以降の成立とみる見方もあらわれている。