Due to reasons that his younger sister, Iga no kata, became the dowager of the regent Yoshitoki HOJO, the second, and he himself also served as Mandokoro Shitsuji (chief of Mandokoro, the Administrative Board), and other reasons, he was given a special treatment as one of the senior vassals.
妹である伊賀の方が2代執権北条義時の後室となり、自身も政所執事を努めるなど、有力御家人として重用された。