He left his administrative duties of the Shogunate to Tomiko and other influential Shugo-daimyo members, such as Katsumoto HOSOKAWA and Sozen YAMANA, and he became a man of culture who pondered his unhappy way of life.
幕政を富子や細川勝元・山名宗全らの有力守護大名に委ねて、自らはもっぱら数奇の道を探求した文化人であった。