Even in the period after that, it had such influence that it was said that, 'until the first half of the twentieth century (when academic variorums such as the "Genji Monogatari taisei "were written), it was the age of reading The Tale of Genji using the Kogetsusho.'
その後も「（『源氏物語大成』といった学術的な校本ができる）20世紀前半までは湖月抄で源氏物語を読む時代だった」と言われるほど影響力を持った。