Whether it was the gods' plan or not, after Atsutane died, Kanetane (by that time he had changed his name to Daigaku) committed the continuation of Atsutane's "Koshi-den" (Annotation of Early History) to Harumichi YANO from Iyo Province, who had entered the school after Atsutane had died and eventually completed "Koshi-den"; besides that, Kanetane worked hard to popularize Kodo by increasing the number of students and teaching the doctrine of the classical Shinto, and succeeded in propagating the thoughts that his father-in-law and his teacher, Atsutane had left.
篤胤逝去後に同郷の死後の門人矢野玄道が、大角の依頼により未完の古史伝を完成させたのも奇しき巡り合わせであり、古道普及の為に東奔西走しては門人の拡張や復古神道の教義普及に努め、父であり師でもある篤胤の遺教を普く宣布した。