However, from the 19th century, because of Norinaga MOTOORI's "Kojikiden" (Commentaries on the Kojiki), which successfully interpreted the "Kojiki" for the first time, and the fact that the Izumo-Hoki provincial border area produces the best iron sand for making ironware, Hakuta-cho in Yasugi City, Shimane Prefecture was once supported as the likely site, further supported by the confirmation that Mineyama-daigongen appears on an old map of Mori Domain.
しかし、近世以降、古事記解読に初めて成功した本居宣長の古事記伝の話と、鉄製品を作る最良の砂鉄の産地ここ雲伯国境地帯であることから、島根県安来市伯太町のものが支持されていた歴史があり、母里藩の古地図にも峯山大権現と記されているのが確認されている。