With Kaneyoshi ICHIJO, Sanetaka maintained and developed the culture of the nobles such as waka poem and received Kokin denju (the secret transmissions of the "Kokinshu," Anthology of Old and New Japanese Poems) from Sogi.
一条兼良らとともに和歌などの貴族文化を保持、発展させ、宗祇から古今伝授を受ける。