However, Norinaga MOTOORI's fighting attitude continued, and in 1830 "Kokuiko" was once again taken up, as the root of Norinaga's affirmation, in Noriyoshi NUMATA's "Kokuiko Benmo" (Corrected Misunderstandings on Kokuiko), and during the Ansei era, Sueshige KUBO refuted this in his "Kokuiko Benmo Zeigen" (Redundancy of Kokuiko Benmo).
しかし本居宣長の戦闘的な態度は続き、文政13年（1830年）に沼田順義『国意考辯妄』により、宣長の主張の根源として『国意考』が再度採りあげられ、安政年間に久保季玆の『国意考辯妄贅言』がこれを反駁している。