Having been promoted to Daigaku no kami (Director of the Bureau of Education) and concurrently Ushoben (Minor Controller of the Right), he was involved in the Shotai Incident and demoted to Kokushi of Tosa Province in 901.
その後大学頭兼右少弁となるが、昌泰の変により父に連座して延喜元年（901年）土佐国国司に左遷される。