As his poems were highly evaluated particularly in the early Showa period, his poem "How reverend Mother is because she gave birth to me to have me serve to the Emperor" was selected as 80th poem of Aikoku Hyakunin Isshu (One Hundred Patriotic Poems by One Hundred Poets).
特に昭和初期にその評価は高まり、昭和17年11月には愛国百人一首の80番として、東雄の「天皇に仕へまつれと我を生みし我がたらちねぞ尊かりける」が採用されている（現代語訳「天皇にお仕えせよと私を生んでくださった私の母親は、なんと尊い人であろうか」）。