Since his father and his older brother, from his birth home of the Shimo-Reizei house, were brought to ruin by the attack of the Bessho clan (the Daimyo or territorial lord in the Sengoku period in the Harima Province), he put up his younger brother as the new head of the family and exerted himself in the reconstruction of the Shimo-Reizei family.
実家の下冷泉家の父と兄が播磨国において戦国大名の別所氏に攻められ没落したため、弟を新たな当主に擁立し、下冷泉家の再興に尽力した。