In January 1102 when his sister Reishi became a priestess, he was put in charge of kaishi (the priest who imparts the Buddhist commandments), but he entered nirvana because of a coughing disease at Tsuchimikado-dai residence at the age of fifty-eight on April 24 during the same year.
康和4年（1102年）正月、姉の麗子の出家に際し戒師を務めたが、同年3月28日咳病のため土御門第において58歳で入寂した。