Two books "Mikawa Go Fudoki" (The Topographical Records of Mikawa Province) and "Tokugawa rekidai" (chronicle of the successive generations of the Tokugawa house) are gisho that were in vogue with unknown authorship and they were written for the purpose of praising the achievements of successive Tokugawa shoguns.
『三河後風土記』、『徳川歴代』の2書は，著者不詳で流行している偽書で，徳川家歴代の功績賛美のために作ったものである。