During the Sengoku period, Joha SATOMURA appeared and wrote many books on renga, having social relations with some daimyo (feudal lords), and established an educational position of renga among the newly appearing daimyo.
戦国時代には里村紹巴が出て、連歌書を多く著すとともに、諸大名と交際し、教養としての連歌の地位を新興の大名のうちにも確立させた。