He associated with FUJIWARA no Akisuke and MINAMOTO no Toshiyori as a poet, and some pieces of his poetry were incorporated in "Kinyo Wakashu" (Kinyo collection of Japanese poems) and other anthologies of Japanese poetry compiled by the Imperial command.
また、歌人としては藤原顕輔・源俊頼らと交渉があり『金葉和歌集』以下の勅撰和歌集に入集している。