Also known as Shojin, he, a bokan (a residential retainer) serving at Hongan-ji Temple, was a top-ranking te-sarugaku (amateur Noh) performer who had studied under Yoshikatsu KONPARU (also known as Gyuren, the father of Yasuteru, the sixty-first head).
本願寺の坊官である少進は金春喜勝（号笈蓮。安照の父。六十一世宗家）に師事した手猿楽の第一人者であった。