He is well known especially as the one who introduced the poems of those representative French symbolists receiving attention of literary circles in those days, and took a part in the establishment and development of Japanese symbolical poetry.
特に当時文壇の注目を集めていたフランス象徴主義に代表される詩人の作品を、象徴詩として紹介している点で有名であり、日本の象徴詩の隆盛の一端を担った。