After his father's death, Mototada studied under Nagatoshi, from whom he was universally transmitted Noh plays that were handed down to the Kanze school, and became a master lauded as a 'superior during the modern age.'
元忠も父の死後はこの長俊に師事して、観世流に伝わる能を遍く伝承され、「近代の上手」と言われる名人になったとされる。