He served as a vassal of MINAMOTO no Mitsunaka and apparently settled Ikeda, Settsu Province as Mitsunaka entered the domain in Tada-bonchi Basin, Kawabe-gun, Settsu Province for the first time, having left Kyoto.
源満仲の家臣として仕え、満仲が都を離れて摂津国川辺郡多田盆地に入部したのに伴い、同国池田の地に土着したとされる。