[5] He was a supporter of the Daikakuji line [ja], descendants of Emperor Kameyama, in the succession disputes of the late Kamakura period.
[2] At the height of his political career, he had attained the Senior Second Rank,[6] and held the position of Provisional Major Counselor (gon-dainagon).
[8] Tameyo learned waka composition from his father Tameuji and his grandfather Tameie, who between them had compiled four of the imperial anthologies.
[4] In 1303,[9] on the command of Retired Emperor Go-Uda,[9] Tameyo compiled the Shin Gosen Wakashū.
[9] As a result of the accession of Emperor Hanazono, a member of the rival Jimyō-in line [ja], to the throne in 1308,[8] he had a bitter dispute with his cousin Kyōgoku Tamekane over the compilation of the next imperial anthology,[7] a dispute he lost.