Why, of course.

Youkai are opposed to well-recorded history...

Which is why it's my duty to make sure

the happenings of the Village are passed down in detail.

For example... We had wild vegetables with the rice today,

but if you wrote in your diary that we ate fish...

If you read it a few days from now, after you'd already forgotten, you'd probably be tricked.

I don't think you'd lie or anything.

It's just like that.

And even if you remembered, anyone else reading it would be misled.

I just strive to avoid those sorts of lies and mistakes, and search for Gensokyo's true form.