He was a Neo-Confucian scholar, but had such a good knowledge of ancient rhetoric of Kobunji school and Japanese classical literature that he had a friendly association with Sorai OGYU (a Confucian scholar) and put effort into publishing Keichu's (a scholar of the Japanese classics) books together with Munetake HIGUCHI (a scholar of the Japanese classics).
朱子学者であったが、古文辞派や国学にも精通しており、荻生徂徠と親しく、また樋口宗武とともに契沖の著書の刊行にも尽力した。