In the following year in 1710, he moved to Kyoto to study the art of waka poetry with an aristocrat called Sanekage MUSHANOKOJI, whose theory on poetry he recorded as 'Shirin shushu' (Treatise on Waka Poetry).
翌1710年（宝永7年）上洛して、歌道を公家の武者小路実陰に学び、実陰の歌論を書き取って「詞林拾集」と著している。