It is said that Shissai MIWA, a scholar of Mitogaku (the scholarship and academic traditions that arose in the Mito Domain), and Sena, kajin (waka poet), studied waka (Japanese poetry) under Michishige.
また水戸学者の三輪執斎、歌人の宣阿は通茂に師事して和歌を学んだという。