Sanesuke was a successor in the Ononomiya Line (the family line of Saneyori), and at the time he was the foremost scholar who studied and had the knowledge of court rules, ceremonies, decorum and records of the past, and he maintained the attitude of not groveling to the authority.
実資は小野宮流（実頼の家系）の継承者で当時では有職故実に通じた一流の学識者で、権勢におもねらず筋を通す態度を貫いた。