He did not favor any specific style for the manner of writing verses in his poetry, and is instead considered to have excelled in achieving delicate word-play and true depth of feeling, and in his tsukeku (seventeen-syllable linking verse) a sense of artistic tension.
句風は特定の風体に偏らず、言葉のこまやかな使い方と心情の深さ、付け句の緊迫感に優れていると評価された。