He was from a family of the Tada-Genji (Minamoto clan), which was ruined after Jisho-Juei War, but he succeeded the territory in Nose-gun, Settsu Province, which his father had developed, served as a central government official (lower or middle ranked), such as Kurodo, Daigaku no suke (Assistant Director of the Bureau of Education) and Bungp no kuni no kami (Governor of Bungo Province), and reached Shogoinoge (Senior Fifth Rank, Lower Grade) in the Kamakura period.
治承・寿永の乱の後に没落した多田源氏の一族であったが、父の開発した摂津国能勢郡の所領を継承しており、鎌倉期に入ってからも中央官人として蔵人や大学助、豊後国守などを務め正五位下に至った。