He was known as the kajin and Japanese classics scholar and received training from TANBA no Tadamori, who was a scholar of the Kawachi school of Minamoto clan and the kajin of the Nijo school (of poetry) when he was young.
歌人・古典学者としても知られ、若いころに河内流の源氏学者で二条派歌人の丹波忠守の薫陶を受けた。