He made creditable achievements as a governmental official responsible for practical works rather than a samurai, and was so famous as a poet that his ten poems were selected in "Shin chokusen wakashu (New Imperial Anthology of Japanese Poetry)".
ただしその活躍は武士としてよりも、文官に近い実務官僚としてであり、また歌人としても有名で、『新勅撰和歌集』には10首選ばれている。