The connection between the Kanze guild and bakufu power became definite during his time, and the Kanze school took the opportunity to suppress other schools and take the central part of the world of nogaku.
彼の時代に観世座と幕府権力の結びつきは決定的なものとなり、以後観世流が他を圧して能楽界の中心を担う契機を作った。