During the kaireki (changing of calendar) in 1684, though he once asserted to adopt the Daito calendar, later he admitted that the Jokyo reki (Jokyo calendar) of Harumi SHIBUKAWA who was a scholar belonging to the same school as Yasutomi of Ansai YAMAZAKI was superior and reported the fact to the emperor to perform, and in 1689, he put pressure upon the Kotokui family and had them promised to be respectful to the Tsuchimikado family as the originator of Onmyodo and controlled the Kotokui family.
貞享元年（1684年）の改暦に際しては大統暦の実施を主張するも、後には山崎闇斎のもとで同門であった渋川晴海の貞享暦が優れていることを認めてこれを実施するように上奏し、元禄2年（1699年）には幸徳井家に圧力をかけて土御門家を陰陽道宗家として仰ぐ事を約束させ、同家を支配下に置いたのである。