His performance was highly regarded; 'Onami who could be said to be the best of the present day' described by a renga poet (linked-verse poet) Shinkei of the same period, and many manuscripts of that time called him 'skilled in his path' or 'a skilled performer unlike others'; Onami could be interpreted as the expert who surpassed Zeami.
その芸は連歌師心敬に「今の世の最一の上手といへる音阿弥」と評されたのを初め、同時代の諸書に「当道の名人」「希代の上手、当道に無双」などと絶賛され、役者としては世阿弥以上の達人であったと推測されている。