The poetic school of the Kyogoku family, known as a 'Waka family,' belonged to the Mikohidari lineage of the Northern House of the Fujiwara clan; Tamenori KYOGOKU, the commoner brother of Tameuji NIJO--the Mikohidari family's rightful heir--started the Kyogoku school together with his son Tamekane KYOGOKU, but in reality it was through Tamekane that the Kyogoku school came into true being as a prominent waka school.
「和歌の家」としての京極派は、藤原北家御子左流に属し、御子左家の嫡男二条為氏の庶弟京極為教とその子京極為兼に始まるが、実質的には為兼によって和歌の流派としての京極派は生まれた。