While there are many literary scholars who express denial of his all-out rejection of "Kokinwakashu," others think of him as a man who was spawned by the fast and radically changing Meiji era in which many of the points he made are allowable.
特に古今和歌集に対する全面否定には拒否感を示す文学者が多いが、明治という疾風怒涛の時代の落し子としてその主張は肯定できるものが多い。