Involving also men of culture among samurai, such as Tsuneyori TO and Yusai (Fujitaka) HOSOKAWA, they continued to hand down culture of yusoku kojitsu (court and samurai rules of ceremony and etiquette) and kokin denju (the secret transmissions of the "Kokinshu," Anthology of Old and New Japanese Poems).
東常縁や細川幽斎（藤孝）といった文化人の武家をも巻き込んで有職故実や古今伝授という文化の相伝を続けた。