After Saneki SANJONISHI, the study of waka by the House of Sanjonishi should have been inherited by Kinkuni SANJONISHI, but since he was still young, Yusai HOSOKAWA, a high disciple of Saneki SANJONISHI, received teachings in Kokinshu （Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern) as an intermediary, and Yusai passed it on to Kinkuni once he had reached the age of adulthood.
三条西家による歌学の継承は、三条西実枝のあと、本来は三条西公国が継ぐべきであったが、まだ幼かったため、三条西実枝の高弟細川幽斎が中継ぎとして古今伝授を受け、三条西公国の成人をまって伝えた。