Also he was not only a famous waka poet whose poems were chosen in Shoku Shui Wakashu (12th imperial anthology), Gyokuyo Wakashu (Collection of Jeweled Leaves, an imperial poetic anthology), and Shoku Senzai Wakashu (Waka Collection of a Thousand Years Continued), but also a master of the biwa (a Japanese lute).
また、続拾遺和歌集・玉葉和歌集・続千載和歌集などの勅撰集に入集するなど有名な歌人でもあり、また琵琶の名手でもあった。