He went to Mountain Hiei, and died while chanting the nembutsu. A 9th century scholar, Miyoshi Kiyotsura, wrote a biography of Yasunori. In the Late Edo period, Saitō Chikudō opined that Yasunori was equal to Nakatomi no kamatari in politics; was as intellectual a person as Miyoshi Kiyotsura; and was a person of as high a caliber as Sugawara no Michizane. Unfortunately Yasunori did not meet an Emperor who could make him a statesman in the central government, so he could show his prowess only in local politics.