Following this, as a working-level bureaucrat in the Taira clan-based government, he held each post in the Benkan except Ushoben (Minor Controller of the Right), and then the post of Kura no kami (Chief of the Bureau of Palace Storehouses).
その後、平氏政権の実務官僚として各弁官（右少弁以外を全て歴任）や内蔵頭を歴任。