He was the thirty-first family head of the TSUCHIMIKADO family which was Tosho-ke, or the hereditary lineage of court nobles occupying relatively high ranks, of which the social standing was hange (kuge), kuge of lower rank and the ABE clan.
堂上家（家格は半家(公家)・阿倍氏）である、土御門家の31代目当主。