[5] At the height of his political career, he had attained the Senior Second Rank,[1] and held the position of Provisional Major Counselor (gon-dainagon).
[3] Tameuji learned waka composition from his father Tameie and his grandfather Teika, who between them had compiled three of the imperial anthologies.
[4] In 1247, he took part in the Hyakusanjū-ban Uta-awase (百三十番歌合),[6] and the following year in the Hōji Hyakushu (宝治百首).
[8] As the heir to the prestigious Mikohidari house, he was a central figure of the waka society of his day.
[3] He had a bitter dispute with his stepmother over valuable manuscripts related to the waka traditions, as well as the inheritance of his father's landholdings.