He employed landscape artist, Zenami, painter of KANO party, Masanobu KANO, and noh artist, Onami, among others, and he constructed Higashiyama-dono villa on the grounds of Higashiyama (it later became Jisho-ji Temple, and Ginkaku and Togu-do Hall still remain to this day).
庭師の善阿弥や狩野派の絵師狩野正信、能楽者の音阿弥らを召抱え、東山の地に東山殿を築いた（のちに慈照寺となり、銀閣、東求堂が現在に残る）。