It is said that Mitsukuni TOKUGAWA of the Mito clan was very angry when he found a sentence that "(Japanese are) descendants of Count Tai of Wu," thus motivated to start his own historiography project, resulting in a biographical history book "Dainihonshi" (Great history of Japan) that actively commented on people in the history, on the contrary to "Honchotsugan" in chronological order.
水戸藩徳川光圀は、この書中に「(日本人が)呉の太伯の末裔である」という記述を発見して憤慨して独自に修史事業を起こし、編年体の本朝通鑑に対し、積極的な人物評価を行う紀伝体の『大日本史』編纂のきっかけになったといわれている。