In general, Yoshimoto is well known as a general defeated by Nobunaga ODA in the Battle of Okehazama, and he is considered to have been an imbecile as a Sengoku daimyo, judging from anecdotes about his personality, who preferred to be carried on a palanquin and was influenced by court noble culture.
一般の認知度では、桶狭間の戦いで織田信長に討たれた敗将として有名であり、合わせて一般に知られている輿に乗っていた、公家文化にかぶれていたなどの人物像から戦国大名としては暗愚と見られている。