While Yukiyasu was alive, his pupil Sotetsu MISAWA listened to his lectures and wrote them down in "Shinkai Monogatari" (Story of Gods' World) in 20 volumes, however, some parts of the description of the gods' world aroused much controversy between Sotetsu and the Hirata family at about the end of the Ansei era (1854-1860)..
生前に師幸安からの口授を聞き書きした、宗哲の『神界物語』は全20巻にも及ぶが、この神界の有様を記録した内容の一部が物議をかもす事となり、安政末年の間に於いて平田宗家との間に軋轢が生じた。