He studied waka (=tanka; a traditional Japanese poem of thirty-one syllables) under Tamehide REIZEI and renga under Yoshimoto NIJO, serving Shogun Yoshimitsu ASHIKAGA as Doboshu (the shogun's attendants in charge of entertainment) as a waka and renga poet and went to Satsuma Province twice as an envoy.
冷泉為秀に和歌を、二条良基に連歌を学び、室町幕府3代将軍足利義満に和歌･連歌をもって同朋衆として仕え、使者として2回薩摩国へ下っている。