SAKANOUE no Mochiki, one of the 'Nashitsubo no Gonin' (Five Gentlemen of the Pear Chamber) and who selected waka for the 'Gosen Wakashu' (Later selected collection of Japanese poetry), was his son.
子に「梨壺の五人」の一人で「後撰和歌集」の撰者坂上望城（さかのうえのもちき）がいる。