He was also well known for his personal comments on other people, and FUJIWARA no Michinaga's famous waka poem, 'Kono yo o ba… (I have always been able to control this world as I wished)' was made known to the later periods through his "Shoyuki."
また、個人的見解を記したことでも著名で、有名な藤原道長の「この世をば…」の和歌は実資の『小右記』から現代に伝えられた。