He is known as the founder of the eclectic school ('Secchugaku-ha' in Japanese) of Japanese Confucianism, who denied conflicts among various schools and severely criticized Sorai OGYU's Kobunjigaku (the study of archaic words and phrases).
折衷学を大成させたことで知られ、学派闘争を否定し古文辞学（荻生徂徠）を痛烈に批判した。