As his achievements show, he was not talented as a politician, skilled as a strategist, or dependable as the head of the Minamoto clan when compared to his immediate ancestors, Yoshiie, his great grandfather, Yoshichika, his brave father, and the skilled politician, Yoshitada, his adoptive father.
これらの事績からも明らかなように政戦両略の才に乏しく、偉大な祖父義家、勇猛だった実父義親、政略に長けた養父義忠などの父祖に比較すると、源氏の棟梁というには頼りない人物であった。