While Muneyoshi YANAGI highly evaluated him as he mastered the depth of Jodo sect, Ippen himself valued the single-minded practice to chant invocation of six letters more than abstract thought.
浄土教の深奥をきわめたと柳宗悦に高く評せられるが、当人は観念的な思惟よりも、ひたすら六字の念仏を称える実践に価値を置いた。