After only two years, he was selected to a sangi (royal advisor), and, four years thereafter, he worked as chunagon (middle counselor), ukonoe taisho (major captain of the Right Division of the Headquarters of the Inner Palace Guard) and togu no daibu (a master of the Crown Prince's palace), concurrently.
わずか2年後には参議に抜擢され、その4年後には中納言・右近衛大将・春宮大夫を兼任するに至る。