Over the generations the family excelled in waka; in the late Muromachi period Sanetaka SANJONISHI was famous as a waka poet and calligrapher; and in the Sengoku (the Warring States) period (Japan) Kineda SANJONISHI and Saneki SANJONISHI were familiar with the Chinese and Japanese classics; these three are called the three generations of Sanjonishi.
代々和歌に優れ、室町時代後期の三条西実隆は歌人、書家として名をなし、戦国時代(日本)の三条西公条、三条西実枝も和漢に精通し、この3人は三条西三代と呼ばれる。