Because of this, it is assumed that almost no documents were actually preserved in the government and they were selected and recorded from the documents handed later as evidence for the 'Soron' lawsuit.
そのことから、幕府の中に保管されていた文書は実はほとんど無く、相論と呼んだ訴訟の証拠として後世に提出された書類から採録したものであろうと推測される。