After the Southern Court had been legitimatized through the argument on legitimacy of either Northern or Southern Court in the Meiji period, he was called Dai-Nanko and was compared in 'kodan' storytelling and other sources to the genius strategist Zhuge Liang of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms."
明治になり南北朝正閏論を経て南朝が正統であるとされると大楠公と呼ばれ、講談などでは『三国志演義』の諸葛亮の天才軍師的イメージを重ねて語られる。