The now effectively powerless nobility busied themselves by researching the intricacies of court practices, waka poetry, and classical literature, and indeed, it is thanks to the efforts of aristocrats like Kaneyoshi ICHIJO, Tsuneyori TO, and Sanetaka SANJONISHI that the classical canon was preserved.
無力化した公家は有職故実や和歌、古典の研究を行い、一条兼良や東常縁、三条西実隆などの公家より古典文化が守られた。