he was excellent in apocrypha and chinese poetry because he had been a buddhist monk in his youth . 若いときに僧であったこともあり、外典・漢詩にも優れていた。
for example , in the section on the age of the gods , myths included as apocrypha in " nihonshoki " were selected instead of mythologies introduced in the body of that book . たとえば神代では『日本書紀』本文の神話ではなく、一書の神話を採用している。
in addition , a public organization in aomori prefecture once tried to make use of the remarkable history of the ando clan for a project to promote the economic development of the area , based on an apocrypha " tsugaru sangun-shi " (the history of the three countries in tsugaru region ). なお一時期、青森県の公共団体が、偽書『東日流外三郡誌』の記載に基づき、安東氏の活躍を村おこしに繋げようとする試みをしたことがある。