In 1789 during the Edo period, at the time of building Imperial Palace, the Edo bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun) ordered Kunihiko SHIBANO, a Confucian scholar, to conduct the historical investigation of kanpukuko (apparel in the painting).
江戸時代になって、寛政元年、内裏造営のさいに、江戸幕府は図の冠服考を儒学者柴野邦彦に命じて考証させた。