However, he was involved in the troubles brought on by what Kunitake KUME had written (the Kume Kunitake Incident) in 1892, and the following year he resigned his post of professor at Imperial University, and consequently the historiography project was halted.
しかし明治25年（1892年）の久米邦武筆禍事件の影響で重野は翌年に帝大教授を辞職、修史事業も中止された。