He was oppressed by being charged for defamation against royalty before the Second World War, but he drew attention after the war, and TSUDA's theory became the center of the study of Japanese mythology for a while.
第二次世界大戦前は不敬罪として弾圧されたが、戦後になって注目され、しばらくの間、津田の説が日本神話研究の中心となった。