The fifth scroll of the "Sendai Kujihongi," which presents an account of the lineages of the Mononobe and Owari clans, contains a note stating that Takakuraji no mikoto was a child of the purported ancestral kami of the Mononobe clan, Nigiyahi, the ancestral kami of the Owari clan, Amanokaguyama no mikoto (the diety enshrined at Iyahiko-jinja Shrine), that he was also called by the name Takurihiko no mikoto when he descended from heaven.
『先代旧事本紀』巻5天孫本紀では、物部氏の祖神であるニギハヤヒの子で尾張氏らの祖天香語山命（彌彦神社の御祭神）の割註に天降の名手栗彦命のまたの名が高倉下命であるとしている。