He stressed the importance on smoothness throughout the process of composing a linked verse; he wrote a collected papers on Renga "Renga Shihosho" and a lot of books including a book on administrative code, a dictionary of administrative code, and commentaries on classics, some of which including a commentary on "Genji Monogatari" "Johasho," and a commentary on "Sagoromo Monogatari""Shitahimo" are extant.
連歌の円滑な進行を重んじ連歌論書『連歌至宝抄』を著したほか、式目書・式目辞典・古典注釈書などの著作も多く、『源氏物語』の注釈書『紹巴抄』、『狭衣物語』の注釈書『下紐』などが現存している。