Considering that most books on nature by scholars of herbalism in the Edo period were just a description of each animal and plant and did not go beyond descriptive taxonomy by listing them up in the order of the 'Compendium of Materia Medica', it is clear that Tomoari was different due to these features of his Gunzanki.
江戸時代の本草学者による自然誌が、個々の動植物を記載し、本草綱目に従って排列する記載分類学の域を出なかったことと比べると、こうした群山記の特色から伴存の稀有さが判明する。