He actively worked as a man of culture familiar to calligraphic works and paintings, Japanese tea ceremony, Noh (traditional masked dance-drama), kemari (a game played by aristocrats in the Heian period) and others, and invited cultural figures in the central government from long ago.
文化人としてもその活動は活発で書画、茶道、能、蹴鞠などの諸芸に通じ、古くから中央の文化人を招くなどしている。