諸芸に通じ、漢籍、洋書を読み、数理も得意とし、詩、和歌、絵画、俳諧などもできたが、経済学に最も長けた。

He was familiar with some arts and he read Chinese classic books and foreign books, in addition, he was good at not only mathmatics but also poetry, Waka (Japanese poetry), paintings and Haikai (Japanese seventeen-syllable verse), but what he showed his great ability most was economics. - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス

名詞をまず漢語で類聚し、意味により分類して項目立て、万葉仮名で日本語に対応する名詞の読み（和名・倭名）をつけた上で、漢籍（字書・韻書・博物書）を出典として多数引用しながら説明を加える体裁をとる。

It was made in the following style: First, nouns were collected in Chinese, were grouped based on their meanings, an item name was given to each group of nouns, a Japanese pronunciation (called "wamyo," literally a Japanese name) of each of these nouns was given using Manyo-gana (a form of syllabary used in the Manyo-shu [Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves]), and to each noun, explanations were given by citing its Chinese document sources (dictionaries, Chinese dictionaries arranged by the final sound of each word, and encyclopedia). - Wikipedia日英京都関連文書対訳コーパス