The public compliments, which included 'the master of Bumdo (literature),' 'brilliant of the day,' 'the most clever man of the day' and 'elder statesman of the country' were a great honor for his descendants and were a key factor in allowing them to persist as the Tosho family (one of the six court noble families such as the Takatsuji family, the Gojo family and the Higashibojo family).
また、世間から「文道棟梁」「今世之宏才」「当代大才」「国之元老」という賛辞が彼に送られたことも彼の子孫にとって大いなる栄誉となり、明治維新まで堂上家（高辻家・五条家・東坊城家等の六家）として存続できたことの大きな要因となった。