After served the Tosho family (the hereditary lineage of Court nobles occupying relatively high ranks), he lived in the Rakushisha (Kyorai's hermitage named after the persimmons in the garden fell in a typhoon) in Sagano in Kyoto where Basho MATSUO wrote "Saga nikki" (Saga diary).
堂上家に仕えた後京都嵯峨野の落柿舎（らくししゃ）に住み、松尾芭蕉はここで『嵯峨日記』を執筆した。