Tokugawa Mitsukuni
Tokugawa Mitsukuni, the Edo-period "daimyō" of the Mito Domain, valued Chikafusa's work highly, a view which he expressed in the Japanese chronicle "Dai Nihonshi" (大日本史): "History of Great Japan". Mitsukuni's patronage ensured that the perspectives and ideology of "Jinnō Shōtōki" were propounded at the Mito Academy (水戸学). These pre-Meiji influences contributed to the development of the "Kō Koku Shi Kan" (皇国史観), a view of history in which Japan is regarded as a divine nation governed by emperors in a single family line from its beginning. These concepts became even more important in the national ideology under Japanese militarism during World War II.