In addition, in the notes of the section of April 541 in Nihonshoki, there is a description on the order 'to choose one tradition and write other heresies when there were too many heresies to judge which ones were true and it is difficult to choose one because of too many old characters' about "Teio Honki" (The Chronicle of Emperors) after the notes on heresies about empresses and princes.
なお、日本書紀欽明天皇2年3月条には、分注において皇妃・皇子に付いて本文と異なる異伝を記した後、『帝王本紀』について「古字が多くてわかりにくいためにさまざまな異伝が存在するのでどれが正しいのか判別しがたい場合には一つを選んで記し、それ以外の異伝についても記せ」と命じられた事を記している。