The readers who take "Azuma Kagami" as a historical novel might believe it, but nobody who reads this as historical material accepts it as true without question.
歴史小説と同じ感覚で『吾妻鏡』を読む者はともかく、歴史史料としてこれを読む者にこの記述を鵜呑みにする者はいない。