 The only complete English translation of the "Kujiki" was made in 2006 by John R. Bentley, who argued based on his examinations of extant manuscripts that the "Kujiki" was indeed written in the early eighth century CE, before the "Kogo Shūi", and as part of the same historiographical movement that produced the "Nihon Shoki" and the "Kojiki".Bentley took the preface, which attributes the work to the early-7th century statesman Prince Shōtoku, to be a later interpolation.In a review for "Monumenta Nipponica", Mark Teeuwen criticized Bentley's methodology.