Under such circumstances, he was a person with versatile talents including Waka; he was a student of Kineda SANJONISHI, kemari (a game played by aristocrats in the Heian period), Chinese medicine, a feast, Sugoroku (Japanese backgammon), as well as Yusoku kojitsu (court and samurai rules of ceremony and etiquette) which was his family business, sho (Japanese flute) and medicine manufacture.
そのような時代の中で言継は家業である有職故実や笙、製薬のみならず、和歌（三条西公条の門下）、蹴鞠から漢方医学や酒宴、双六などの多彩な才能の持ち主であった。