Later, Emperor Murakami's reign was highly regarded as the ideal of imperial governance and was called Engi, Tenryaku no Chi (glorious Engi and Tenryaku rules) together with another ideal imperial governance taken by the Emperor Daigo (called Engi no Chi) in the early 10th century.
後世、村上治世は天皇親政により理想の政治が行われた時代として聖代視され、同じく天皇親政が行われたとする10世紀前期の醍醐天皇の治世（延喜の治）と併せて、延喜・天暦の治と呼ばれた。