For the year of the compilation, it is considered that the name Kohechi had been known as early as the end of the Sengoku period (Period of Warring States, Japan) to the beginning of the early-modern period.
この成立年代を考えるならば、小辺路の名は早ければ戦国時代(日本)末期から近世初頭には知られていたことが推測できる。