After the kenmu no shinsei (Kenmu Restoration), he returned and became a Chunagon (vice-councilor of state), but, although he admonished the Emperor for an administration in which only close aides were treated favorably, the Emperor would not hear it and, therefore, he became disappointed in the new government and became a priest, retiring and moving to Iwakura in the suburb of Kyoto where his final whereabouts became unknown.
建武の新政後に復帰して中納言になるが、天皇の側近重用政治を諫めるも聞き入れなかったため、新政権に失望して出家して京郊外の岩倉に隠遁してそのまま行方不明となる。