 The note attached to poem 3845 in Book XVI describes him as "".In Tenpyō 2 (730) he participated in a plum blossom-viewing party at the residence of Ōtomo no Tabito, then the governor (一大宰帥 "ichi Dazai no sochi") of the Dazaifu.Poems 557, 558, 843 and 3844 in the "Man'yōshū" are attributed to him.