In the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate, Banzan came under the spotlight once again, and great thinkers, such as Toko FUJITA and Shoin YOSHIDA, admired him, so his ideas became a driving force of the movement to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate.
幕末、蕃山の思想は再び脚光を浴びるところとなり藤田東湖、吉田松陰などが傾倒し、倒幕の原動力となった。