He excelled in prose and poetry, calligraphy, paintings and interacted with the Confusian scholar Sanyo RAI and the Nanga painter (an original style of painting during the Edo period which had a great deal of influence from the Chinese Nanga style) Chikuden TANOMURA and others.
詩文・書・絵画に秀で、儒学者頼山陽・南画家田能村竹田などと交流があった。