Regarding these haiku Seigetsu wrote, it can be said that he tried to reevaluate Shomon (Basho's school) from the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate to the early Meiji period during which mediocre haiku were prevalent.
この点から、月並俳句が横行した幕末・明治初期にかけて、蕉門の再評価を目指した井月の姿勢がうかがわれる。