He went back to Kyoto just before he finished his term, and was assigned to Minbu shoyu in December 1155, but was exiled to the Mutsu Province because of enza (guilty due to a relative's crime) of his brother FUJIWARA no Nobuyori who was defeated in the Heiji War in 1159.
任が終わる直前に帰洛し、久寿2年（1155年）12月、民部少輔に補任されたが、平治元年（1159年）の平治の乱で敗れた兄・藤原信頼に縁座によって陸奥に流された。