In the early-modern times, Nancho shikan (Southern Dynasty hero-centered historiography) focusing on Mitogaku (the scholarship and academic traditions that arose in the Mito Domain) had a description of suspecting the Masanori's surrender to the Northern Court.
近世になり、水戸学を中心とする南朝史観においては、正儀の北朝投降は疑われていた。