In 1154, He was appointed as the chief of the spring festival of the Kasuga-taisha shrine and left Kyoto with a long procession of many attending nobilities and samurai, such as Tameyoshi MINAMOTO, under his command for the festival.
この年、春日祭上卿を勤め、多くの殿上人や源為義らの武士を含む大行列を従え、盛大に京を出立している。