After Sogi died, he kept the center of his activities in Kyoto and was active as a linked verse poet, traveling around the Hokuriku, Togoku, Kyushu regions as a messenger for the aristocracy and Daimyo.
宗祇が亡くなってからは、京都に拠点を置きながら連歌師として活躍し、公家や大名の使者として北陸・東国・九州などを旅した。