People from tosho family (hereditary linage of court nobles) usually became kugyo (the top court officials) after successively serving as jiju (chamberlain), emon no suke (assistant captain of the Outer Palace Guard) and Konoe jisho.
堂上家出身者で公卿となる者は侍従・衛門佐・近衛次将を歴任する例が多かった。