He wrote treatises on poetry, including "Maigetsusho" (Monthly Notes), "Kindai Shuka" (Superior poems of our times), and "Eiga Taigai" (Essentials of Poetic Composition), whereby he discussed poetry skills such as Honkatori (writing poems quoting parts of old poems) and the relationship between emotions and words.
歌論書に『毎月抄』『近代秀歌』『詠歌大概』があり、本歌取りなどの技法や心と詞との関わりを論じている。