Influenced by Ju EMURA's Shakujodo-shisha (the term shisha refers to a Chinese poetry salon), Kien and his fellow scholars Ritsuzan SHIBANO and Soshu AKAMATSU established their own shisha called Sanpaku-sha.
また、江村綬の錫杖堂詩社に影響され、柴野栗山や赤松滄洲らと三白社という詩社を起こす。