He became a Sangi (Councilor) in 1855, but retired in the following year to become a Toka no sechie Geben (a Kugyo who supervised the event of toka [ceremonial mass singing and stomp dancing] called Toka no sechie held at the Imperial Court on around the fifteenth day of the first month of the year, outside the Shomeimon gate of the Kyoto imperial palace).
安政2年（1855年）に参議となったが、翌年辞し、踏歌節会外弁となる。