Motomasa was such an excellent Noh player that Zeami wrote in his book "Museki isshi" (A Page on the Remnant of a Dream) as "I must admit that he is an unparalleled master although he is my son."
元雅は世阿弥が『夢跡一紙』で「子ながらもたぐひなき達人」と評したほどの名手であった。