Shojo was proficient in calligraphy, painting and the tea ceremony, and was particularly famous as a good penman, who learned the calligraphy under Sakihisa KONOE, studied calligraphy of the Daishi-ryu and Teike-ryu schools, established a new school of calligraphy which was called Shokado-ryu school (or Takimoto-ryu school), and was, along with Nobutada KONOE and Koetsu HONAMI, given the honorary title of 'Three Brushes of the Kanei Era'
書道、絵画、茶道に堪能で、特に能書家として高名であり、書を近衛前久に学び、大師流や定家流も学び，独自の松花堂流（滝本流ともいう）という書風を編み出し、近衛信尹、本阿弥光悦とともに「寛永の三筆」と称せられた。