Staying mainly in Kyoto as a local governor, he also served as a bugyo (magistrate) for selling and buying local products from Echigo Province such as Aoso (fiber materials for clothing) by approaching the Sanjonishi family while he negotiated with the Imperial court and bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun).
代官として主に京都に駐在し、朝廷や幕府との折衝の傍ら、三条西家に接近して青苧などの越後特産品の売買に関する奉行職も勤める。