He became a maternal relative of the emperor and made many important connections with many powerful nobles by his own or his children's marriages and adoptions, and at last he was given Honza-senge (having equal capacity with a vice minister at junior first rank)
天皇の外戚、また、多くの有力公卿と縁組みし、本座（准大臣・従一位に準ず）の宣下。