While he encouraged a Noh play and Sarugaku (one of the Japanese traditional performing arts spread in Heian period), which made his name as a cultured person of the first rank, he had raised the whole family's hostility to make a Sarugaku-si Actor his vassal.
能や猿楽を奨励するなど一流の文化人として名を馳せるが、猿楽師を家臣にしようとして家中での反感を買ったこともあった。