Furthermore, as to the Fujinoki-kofun Tumulus, he pointed out that there had been a village of shuko (tomb keepers) called Otono, wherein each house was decorated with Shimenawa (sacred rice-straw ropes), with residents making living as Onmyoji (Master of Yin yang) while keeping a divine lifestyle, and that 'Misasagi no ama' had a hut and stayed there all the time, concluding the tomb to be an Imperial mausoleum.
さらに、藤ノ木古墳については、付近に小殿（おとの）という、各家々に注連縄を張って陰陽師を職業とし、神々しく暮らしている守戸（しゅこ：陵墓を守る人）村があった、あるいは「みささぎの尼」が庵を作って常駐していたことを伝え、皇陵であると言っている。