Taking these things into consideration, Hidematsu WADA claimed in 'A Study on Old Manuscripts of Azuma Kagami' that a manuscript in the Kanazawa Library, the source of Hojobon and Kurokawabon, is a simplified book, and Yoshikawabon would have been based on the version which was being edited before it.
それらのことから和田英松は「吾妻鏡古写本考」において、北条本や黒川本の源流である金沢文庫本は節略本であり、吉川本はそれより前の編集途中の版をベースとした写本であろうとしたという。