His style of performance was gentle, sophisticated and delicate, and was called as one of the three masters of the Kanze school, along with Manaburo UMEWAKA and Kyuzaburo HASHIOKA.
芸風は温雅で上品なやわらかみがあり、梅若万三郎、橋岡久三郎と並んで観世流の三名人といわれた。