After becoming Shonagon (lesser councilor of state) and returning to Kyoto, he became Hyobushoyu (deputy minister of military arm) in 754, and in the following year was involved in the inspection of sakimori (soldiers deployed for boarder defenses) in Nanba.
少納言となって帰京後、天平勝宝6年（754年）兵部少輔となり、翌年難波で防人の検校に関わる。