It might be due such circumstances that he did not take part in the actual battles during the Hogen Disturbance in 1156, even though at first he went up to Kyoto and was under the command of his father Tameyoshi.
そうした事情もあってか、保元の乱（1156年）に際しても、はじめ上洛して父為義の指揮下に入りながらも、実際の戦闘には参加していない。