Three successive generations, Sanetaka, Kineda SANJONISHI and Saneki SANJONISHI, were good at waka poetry and kept up the family business. (Kokin denju - the secret transmissions of the "Kokinshu," Anthology of Old and New Japanese Poems)
実隆・三条西公条・三条西実枝の三代はいずれも歌道に優れており、家職として歌道を継承した（古今伝授）。