He was outstanding in Waka (a traditional Japanese poem of thirty-one syllables) and Kanshi (Chinese-style poem) and his works of Waka and Kanshi were introduced in the "Manyoshu" (the oldest anthology of tanka) and the "Kaifuso" (Fond Recollections of Poetry).
和歌・漢詩にも秀で『万葉集』『懐風藻』に和歌や漢詩が採り上げられている。