However, today, it is confirmed that Hokusai met his disciple Hokuyo HONMA and gave him 'Oni-zu' (the painting of an ogre) (held at the present Sano Museum) at Asakusa of Edo on July 1848, which was regarded as the month in which Hokusai drew Happo Nirami Hoo-zu.
しかし現在では、本図が描かれたとされる嘉年元年六月に、北斎は江戸浅草で門人・本間北曜と面談し、北曜に「鬼図」（現佐野美術館蔵）を与えていた事実が確認されている。