He was a talented poet of Waka (a traditional Japanese poem of thirty-one syllables) who was one of the popular poets of oral tradition in the Kokindenju, he was also known to be good with a brush and an very rare example of his calligraphy in black paint exists in Tanzaku (a long sheet on which Waka poems are written).
古今伝授伝承者に名を連ねる和歌の名手で、能書家でもあり、短冊などの遺墨は、たいへん貴重。