Although it is not known since when, it seems that he became a retainer of Yoshitake ASHIKAGA who had a close connection with Mino Province and the Toki clan in Mino Province, and served as an attendant at the bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun, in this case Muromachi Shogunate).
いつの頃からかは定かではないが、元々は幕府に出仕し、美濃および美濃土岐氏に関わり深い足利義稙(足利義稙）の家臣であったらしい。