Later Taipingji Review, Catalogue of Bishan Mountain, Chronicles of Past Dynasties, Biography of Kusunoki Masashige, History of Great Japan and Review of Japanese Foreign History all praised Kusunoki Masashige's personality and art of war.
During the Edo period, Tokugawa Gwangju, who only respected Zhuzi's learning, advocated the theory of "sense of justice and separation of powers" and compiled the History of Great Japan. Starting from the orthodoxy (taking the Southern Dynasties as the orthodoxy), Kusunoki Masashige's tomb was rebuilt in Beichuan in 1692 (the third year of Luyuan), and the tombstone of "The Tomb of Nanzi, a loyal minister" was erected.
The monument is three meters high, and behind it is the ode to Zhu Shunshui, a legacy of the Ming Dynasty, engraved by Yuan Chun Okamura, a calligrapher in Kyoto. Since then, Kusunoki Masashige has been regarded by the Japanese as a model of loyal ministers, and is well known. In particular, the characters at the end of the curtain were influenced by him and became the ideological basis for overthrowing the shogunate and establishing the Meiji government.