After working as Sakone no chujo (Middle Captain of the Left Division of Inner Palace Guards), Gon Chunagon (a provisional vice-councilor of state), Toka no sechie Geben (a Kugyo who supervised the event of toka [ceremonial mass singing and stomp dancing] called Toka no sechie held at the Imperial Court on around the fifteenth day of the first month of the year), Uhyoe no kami (Captain of the Right Division of Middle Palace Guards), and Sahyoe no kami; Sahyonoe-no-kami (head of Sahyoefu), he was assigned to Gon Dainagon (a provisional chief councilor of state) in 1753.
その後、左近衛中将・権中納言・踏歌節会外弁・右兵衛督・左兵衛督を経て、宝暦3年（1753年）に権大納言となる。