He enjoyed Chinese-style poem, paintings and calligraphic works, seal-engravings as well as waka (a traditional Japanese poem of thirty-one syllables), kyoka (comic tanka poem of thirty-one syllables) and haikai (seventeen-syllable short poem).
漢詩・書・画・篆刻のみならず、和歌・狂歌・俳諧にも興じている。