However, these arguments intensified the confrontation with the scalars of Kokugaku (the study of Japanese classical literature and culture) such as Oko KAWADA, and historians of Mitogaku (the scholarship and academic traditions that arose in the Mito Domain), and later this confrontation resulted in one of the causes of the Kume Kunitake Incident (troubles brought on by what Kunitake KUME's has written).
しかしこのような主張は川田甕江ら国学系・水戸学系歴史学者との対立を激化させ、のちの久米邦武筆禍事件の原因の一つとなった。