In the medieval period and into more recent times, no one rated the poetry of the Kyogoku school very highly and it consequently fell into a long period of obscurity, but closer to the present day, the Kyogoku school experienced a more positive reappraisal, with Shinobu ORIGUCHI and Zenmaro TOKI, in particular, offering strong praise of the Kyogoku poetic style.
中世・近世においてはたかく評価されることがなく、長らく埋もれたままになっていた京極派ではあるが、近代に入ってから再評価が行われ、特に折口信夫や土岐善麿がその歌風をつよく称揚した。