In the Meiji period, court ranks were posthumously conferred to those who had fought in the Mongolian invasions, including Tokimune who was awarded Juichii (Junior First Rank), and in the Showa period, many biographies about him were written in the period that led up to the Pacific War.
明治には元寇受難者への追贈で時宗にも従一位が追贈され、昭和には太平洋戦争へ至る時局から評伝などが数多く書かれた。