He was also assigned to Udaisho (Major Captain of the Right Division of Inner Palace Guards), but he had been slandered by his father almost all his life and had lived with under the fear of being haunted by the vengeful ghost of SUGAWARA no Michizane, who had been relegated to Dazai-fu (local government office in Kyushu region).
右大将も兼任したが、一生の大半を父に讒言され、大宰府に左遷された菅原道真の怨霊に怯えながら過ごす事となる。