He was one of Rokkasen (six best Waka poets) and the only one whose poems were not selected for Ogura Hyakunin Isshu (the Ogura Anthology of One Hundred Tanka-poems by One Hundred Poets) within Rokkasen.
六歌仙の一人で、六歌仙の中で唯一小倉百人一首に撰ばれていない。