He was a poet of Hototogisu (the traditional haiku style) and shasei ("sketching") haiku and a pupil of Kyoshi TAKAHAMA, who called him "Kachofuei Shinkoccho Kan" (a man who shows a perfect exemplar of his art of very objective description on nature).
高浜虚子に師事し、虚子に『花鳥諷詠真骨頂漢』とまで言わしめたホトトギス派・写生派の俳人。