It is now widely held that the Taika Reforms were not so epoch-making as to have been depicted in the "Nihon shoki" ("Chronicles of Japan") and that the movement toward reform later stagnated.
大化の改新は日本書紀に描かれるほどの画期的な改革ではなく、その後、改革への動きは停滞したとする見解が広範な支持を集めているのである。