While the samurai culture put a value on the literary and military arts, court noble culture was characterized by elegance and pleasure, that is, hobbies and arts which were told as kacho-fugetsu (beauty of nature, the traditional themes of natural beauty in Japanese aesthetics).
武家文化が文武を重きにおく事に対し、公家文化は花鳥風月と例えられる雅や遊び、いわゆる趣味や芸術である。