He governed the Onmyoryo (Bureau of Divination) as an Onmyodo Soke (head family of Onmyodo [way of Yin and Yang; occult divination system based on the Taoist theory of the five elements]), with his elder brother, ABE no Yoshihira and KAMO no Mitsuyoshi of the Kamo clan, the Shike (teaching master) of his father, ABE no Seimei.
兄・安倍吉平や父・晴明の師家である賀茂氏の賀茂光栄らと共に陰陽道宗家として陰陽寮を統括する。