| The descendants of Munenaga, the eldest son, continued as the Nanba family, and those of Masatsune, the second son, continued as the Asukai family into the later generations, and they both played central roles in the ways of kemari (a game played by aristocrats in the Heian period) and waka (a traditional Japanese poem of thirty-one syllables). |
長男宗長の子孫は難波家、次男雅経の子孫は飛鳥井家として後世に続き、蹴鞠・和歌の道において重きをなしている。 |