In 1153, Josaimonin conferred him a peerage, and in 1157, he was appointed to the Director of Tanba Province at the age of 11, but around the same time, his father died.
仁平三年(1153年)上西門院御給により叙爵、保元２年(1157年)十一歳にして丹波国守に任官されるが同時期に父が死去。