While he studied under another Buddhist priest called Shotetsu and was known as a poet of the Reizei School, he gradually became a renga poet of the time by for example attending the 'Kitano-sha manku' (10,000 linked verses event at Kitano-jinja Shrine) in 1433.
正徹に師事して冷泉派の歌人として知られる一方、1433年（永享5年）、「北野社万句」の座に列するなど、連歌作者として次第に時代を代表する存在となる。