A poet, Nobutsuna SASAKI, in the "Kinsei wakashi" (history of modern waka poems), praised Azumao as the best poet in the loyalists to the Emperor and described his poems as exhilarating as well as quaint with a Manyo form.
歌人の佐佐木信綱は『近世和歌史』の中で、東雄を「勤王家中第一の歌人」と賞賛し、万葉調の古調の中に爽快感があると評している。