Nobukata served the Imperial Court, gave lectures and systematized Myogyo-do (the study of Confucian classics) in addition to producing many monographs of the study of Japanese classical literature and Confucianism.
宣賢は宮中に仕えて講義を行い、明経道を整理して多くの国学、儒学の論文著作をおこなった。