His haiku poems in the pictorial shasei style were spun with his Western and Eastern sensibilities, and they were so brilliant that Kyoshi, who advocated the ideology of Kachofuei (very objective description on nature), called him "Kachofuei Shinkoccho Kan" (a man who shows a perfect exemplar of his art of Kachofuei).
西洋的な感性と東洋的な感性で紡ぎ出された写生的な句は、花鳥諷詠を唱えた虚子に「花鳥諷詠真骨頂漢」と評価されるほどであった。