He traveled throughout the country composing poems and helped lead the Matsuo Bashō revival movement of the eighteenth century.
He spent several years in Kyoto in the early part of the 1770s, and his work frequently appears in sequences composed by Buson and his colleagues around this time.
[6] A storm-wind blows Out from among the grasses A full moon grows[7] at the ancient shrine tarnished gold-foil... and green leaves awakening time[8] insects scattering in the grasses— sound-colours[8] Kasen Renga During his life, Chora participated in many collaboratively written poems called haikai no renga, especially the 36-verse form known as kasen.
He helped write the following kasen titled "Susuki Mitsu" ("Seeing Micanthus" or "Having Seen Pampas Grass") along with the poets Buson, Kitô, and Ranzan.
[9] Ronald Caltabiano (1959-) used one of Chora's haiku in his song "First Dream of Honeysuckle Petals Falling Alone," composed in 1978 for mezzo-soprano and piano.