Career
Kanesuke"s poems are included in several imperial poetry anthologies, including Kokin Wakashū and Gosen Wakashū. A personal poetry collection known as the Kanesukeshū also remains. His great-granddaughter was Murasaki Shikibu, author of the well-known monogatari the Tale of Genji.
The Tale of Heike contains "an almost direct quotation" of his poem in the Gosenshu (no 1102).
