The Intention of the Editor of the Chronicles of Japan

Concerning the setting of the first year of the Sumera-mikoto, the editor of the Chronicles of Japan must have regarded the accession to the throne at the Kashi-hara palace as a great revolution in the Japanese history. Therefore, even if 660B.C. would be a fictitious year, he dared to set it on the Shinn-Yuu which had been believed as a revolutionary year, according to the theory of the Shinn-I-Reki-Unn.