However, he cleared off all the debts and succeeded in protecting and evolving the classical Shinto that the head family of the Hirata family had inherited for generations; those works are still being told as moving stories.
篤胤亡き後に、借財や負債はすべて返済し平田宗家伝来の復古神道の道を守り更に進展させた事は美談として今日まで語り継がれている。