When Mitsunobu TOSA created "Picture scroll of the origin of Kitano Tenjin Shrine," to which Sanetaka wrote a legend to explain what it depicts, Mitsunobu also made rough sketches of Sanetaka, and Sanetaka commented that 'it doesn't bear resemblance to me very much, and is dull to see.'
土佐光信が『北野天神縁起絵巻』を作る際に実隆が詞書を書く縁で、光信が描いた実隆の肖像画の下絵が残されているが、これを見た実隆は「十分に似ず、比興なり」と評している。