Having served Ieharu TOKUGAWA, the 10th shogun, as a Noh play instructor since Ieharu was still young, he was allowed to establish a branch family headed by KANZE Oribe Kiyohisa, his younger brother, in 1752,
十代将軍徳川家治の若い頃から能楽の指南を務めたことから、1752年（宝暦2年）分家を認められ、弟の観世織部清尚に別家させる。