There is a private collection called "Dainagon Kinto Shu," "Kingyoku wakashu," an anthology of poems that he selected, and the treatises on waka poetry "Shinsen Zuino (The Essence of Poetry, Newly Selected)" and "Waka Kuhon (The Nine Levels of Poetic Excellence)"; he also edited "Wakan Roeishu" (Japanese and Chinese Poems to Sing) and the "Thirty-Six Poets' Collection," which served as the origin of the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets.
家集『大納言公任集』、私撰集『金玉和歌集』、歌論書『新撰髄脳』『和歌九品』などがあり、『和漢朗詠集』や三十六歌仙の元となった『三十六人撰』は彼の撰による。