On the other hand, he was presented with "Shinkei Sozu Teikin" by Kensai INAWASHIRO, a renga (linked-verse) poet, and with "Kokoro no Fumi" (Letter from the Heart) by Juko MURATA, a chajin (master of the tea ceremony), was good at Utai (the chanting of Noh text) and at playing the shakuhachi bamboo flute, and was also famous as man of literature.
一方で連歌師猪苗代兼載から『心敬僧都庭訓』を、茶人村田珠光から『心の文』をうけ、また謡（うたい）・尺八にも優れ、文人としても有名であった。