He was talented at making waka poems (Japanese poems), playing the biwa (Japanese lute), and making kotouta pieces (traditional koto tunes), and after he resigned as the advisor in 1094, he held the Zen Kanpaku Morozane Utaawase poetry contest.
和歌・琵琶・箏歌に優れ、1094年、関白を辞した直後には前関白師実歌合を開いた。