As the anecdote of his last will indicates, he seemed to have been a person of humorous personality and he is depicted as a person with a mischievous and innocent personality in "Uji Shui Monogatari" (a collection of the Tales from Uji).
遺言の逸話が示すように、覚猷自身、笑いのセンスに長けた人物のようであり、『宇治拾遺物語』にも覚猷のいたずら好きで無邪気な人柄が描かれている。