He not only knew very well how to survive in the political world but was also recognized as an excellent poet; his poems were selected for "Senzaishu" (Collection of a Thousand Years) and recently he is mentioned as a possible writer of "Roei hyakushu" (literally, one hundred of poems for recitation).
政界遊泳に長けていたばかりでなく、歌人としても存在感を発揮し、『千載集』に入選している他、近年では『朗詠百首』の作者にも擬せられている。