Kanefusa, who loved waka poems (31-syllable Japanese poems) and respected KAKINOMOTO no hitomaro (a poet and a noble of the late Asuka period), but did not have much political skill, was able to keep himself intact and apart from political turmoil during the years of wars between the Minamoto clan and the Taira clan.
和歌を愛好して柿本人麻呂を尊敬していたが、政治的才能には乏しく、却ってそれによって源平の合戦の最中の政治的混乱を避けることができた。