It was said that his character was honest and did not flatter people, but had bad karma for liking Shoyo games held in Spring and Fall, did hunting, favored Eiga (Flowering Fortune), but followed doctrine and read the Hoke-kyo Sutra (the Lotus Sutra) daily so he would be able to go to heaven ("Honcho Hokke Genki" (Accounts of auspicious signs of the Lotus Sutra in our country)).
人柄は正直で人に媚びることはなかったが、春秋の逍遥遊戯に惹かれ、狩猟に耽り、栄華を好むなど罪業を積んだが、道心あって平素より法華経を読んだことから往生を得ることができたとされる（『本朝法華験記』ほか）。