On the other hand, when Manzo NOMURA, the seventh, Mansaku NOMURA, Shime SHIGEYAMA and his brother Sennojo SHIGEYAMA performed activities different from Kyogen (farce played during a Noh play cycle) in the post war period, Kyuen expressed negative attitude as a chairman of the Nohgaku Performers' Association, and he once insisted the expulsion of Sennojo.
一方で、戦後、野村万蔵(7世)・野村万作や茂山七五三・茂山千之丞の兄弟が狂言以外の分野で活動を行った際には、能楽協会理事として否定的な態度を崩さず、一時千之丞の除名を主張した。