After his death, his life and the style of his works were compared with that of Paul Gauguin on the Japanese national television (NHK)'s Sunday Art Museum program, and in 2001, a memorial art museum was established in his honor near the airport on Amami Ōshima.
After his passing, comparisons were made between his life and artistic style and those of Paul Gauguin on Japan's NHK television. A year later, a commemorative art museum was built in his memory close to the airport on Amami Ōshima island.