Arifusa and Tameyo played an active role in the Daikakuji-to poetry circle and, under the influence of Tameyo, Arifusa wrote Nomorinokagami (in 1295 albeit there is heresy concerning the year), making scathing attack on the poems of Tamekane KYOGOKU who belonged to the Jimyoin-to (imperial lineage from Emperor Gofukakusa to Emperor Gokomatsu) group.
為世とともに大覚寺統側の歌壇で活躍し、その影響下で『野守鏡』（永仁3年（1295年）、但し異説あり）を著し、持明院統側の京極為兼の歌を激しく論難した。