After appointment to Shogoinoge (Senior Fifth Rank, Lower Grade) the next year, he became Kurodo (Chamberlain) as well as Bicchu gon no suke (acting assistant governor of Bicchu Province) in 1168 and resigned Togu gakushi.
翌年正五位下に叙され、仁安3年（1168年）には蔵人兼備中権介となり東宮学士を辞した。