in an interview with soichi oya when he was sixty , he said he wrote two to three hundred tanka (a thirty one-syllable japanese poem ) each day and had written five to six hundred thousand tanka by then . 60歳のとき受けた大宅壮一のインタビューにおいて、1日に2、3百首の短歌を詠み、これまで5、60万首詠んだと語ったという。
in 2007 , sakujin kirino , who published in 1992 " nobunaga bosatsu no nazo " (mystery of deliberate murder of nobunaga ) based on " kanemikyo-ki ," criticized his own view by admitting in an interview with a researcher that he was told by a researcher " this is a kind of inboshikan (conspiratorial interpretation of history )." and that ' at that time , he could hardly read writing in simplified style in ancient documents .' 2007年になって1992年に『兼見卿記』を基にした『信長謀殺の謎』を上梓している桐野作人が、インタビューの中で、ある研究者に『これは一種の陰謀史観だよ』と言われたことや、「そのころは古文書のくずし字がほとんど読めなかった」ことを告白し、自説を批判している。
concerning this , in an interview with saeko himuro , which was written down in the second volume of paper back , the author said , " i ' ve had an uncomfortable feeling about the stories related to prince shotoku since my childhood , and one day i talked about this to masako yashiro at an izakaya bar , she introduced the book " kakusareta jujika (hidden cross )" written by takeshi umehara to me , and when i bought the book and read it next day , the whole image of the story came to my head ." これについて作者は文庫版2巻に収録された氷室冴子との対談で、「聖徳太子にまつわるエピソードに子供の頃から違和感を持っており、ある時、居酒屋で矢代まさこを相手にそういう話をしていたら、梅原猛の『隠された十字架』を紹介され、翌日それを買ってきて読んで、その時に全てのイメージが出て来た」と語っている。
concerning this , in an interview with saeko himuro , which was written down in the second volume of paper back , the author said , " i ' ve had an uncomfortable feeling about the stories related to prince shotoku since my childhood , and one day i talked about this to masako yashiro at an izakaya bar , she introduced the book " kakusareta jujika (hidden cross )" written by takeshi umehara to me , and when i bought the book and read it next day , the whole image of the story came to my head ." これについて作者は文庫版2巻に収録された氷室冴子との対談で、「聖徳太子にまつわるエピソードに子供の頃から違和感を持っており、ある時、居酒屋で矢代まさこを相手にそういう話をしていたら、梅原猛の『隠された十字架』を紹介され、翌日それを買ってきて読んで、その時に全てのイメージが出て来た」と語っている。
