His Chinese-style poems were included in a collection of Chinese verse "Kaifuso" (Fond Recollections of Poetry) and 78 waka (Japanese-style poems) were selected for the "Manyoshu" (Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves), most of which were written in the years after he became Dazai no sochi.
漢詩集『懐風藻』に漢詩が収められ、『万葉集』にも和歌78首選出されているが、和歌の多くは大宰帥以後のものである。