He attained public notoriety with "Ogon no Hibi" (The Golden Days), based on the novel by Saburo SHIROYAMA and dramatized in 1978 as one of the series of Taiga Drama (NHK's annual year-long historical dramas), but the historical truth about his life is unclear.
城山三郎の小説で、昭和53年（1978年）に大河ドラマ化された『黄金の日日』などで知名度が上がるが、歴史的人物としての事跡は不明。