Later, he became Toka no sechie (Circle-Dancing Banquet: the last of the First Month's three great banquets [sechie] which formerly took place from the fourteenth to the sixteenth of January in the Shishinden [the Throne Hall] of the Imperial Court under the moonlight) Geben (a Kugyo who supervised the Imperial Court Ceremony outside of Jomei Gate) and Gon Chunagon, and was promoted to Gon Dainagon in 1647.
その後、踏歌節会外弁・権中納言を経て、正保4年（1647年）に権大納言に昇進。