Ukichi TAGUCHI, a historian in the Meiji period, criticized the reputation that the achievement of avoiding Mongol invasion had attributed to the regent, Tokimune, and insisted that Masamura had took the initiative in the negotiation between Japan and Mongolia, from the viewpoints of age, human network and so on.
明治の歴史学者田口卯吉は、元寇回避の功績を執権の時宗に帰する評価を批判し、年齢や人脈などの点から日蒙交渉は政村が主導していたと主張する。