Although Tsuneyori TO was deprived of his territory at Gujo in Mino Province by Myochin SAITO during the Onin War, he recovered it by sending 10 waka (a 31-syllable Japanese poem), and then he returned to Kyoto in April 1469 and did kokin-denju (the secret transmissions of the "Kokinshu," the Anthology of Old and New Japanese Poems) for the Japanese poet named Sogi in 1471.
応仁の乱で所領である美濃国郡上を斎藤妙椿に奪われはしたものの10首の和歌をもって返還が叶ったので、東常縁は文明元年（1469年）4月に帰京し、文明3年（1471年）には宗祇に古今伝授を行っている。