He served Yoshimasa ASHIKAGA, and applied makie (Japanese lacquer sprinkled with gold or silver powder) to various furnishings referred to as Higashiyama gyomotsu (things, such as paintings, tea utensils, flower vases, collected by Yoshimasa ASHIKAGA, the eighth shogun of the Muromachi bakufu).
足利義政に仕え、東山御物と称される諸調度に蒔絵を施した。