Bruno Taut, who defected from Germany in the early Showa period, mentioned about Katsura Rikyu, 'It makes me almost cry, it is so beautiful,' the simple beauty of the building without having any decorations was estimated to have the same value as the beauty seen in modern architectural modeling.
昭和始めにドイツから亡命したブルーノ・タウトが「泣きたくなるほど美しい」と絶賛し、装飾を排した簡素な建築美はモダニズム建築の造形美にも通じるとして評価された。