He was good at literature as well as military arts and was also known to have extensive knowledge about waka (traditional Japanese poems of thirty-one syllables) and Kangen (gagaku musical piece without dance), and possibly because of his noble Ichijo family line, Yoshitaka was fond of him very much.
文武に秀で和歌や管弦などの雅な教養にも明るく、公家の名門一条家の血筋もあってなのか義隆に可愛がられた。