He rose to the eighth chief Buddhist priest of Daien-in Temple and presented himself as a witness when TAIRA no Koremori (Shigemori's son) drowned himself off the coast of Katsuura, Kishu (the present Wakayama Prefecture).
大円院の第8代住職を務め、元暦元年（1184年）には、紀州の勝浦で平維盛（重盛の子）の入水に立ち会っている。