He worked as a middle rank of government official in Kyoto, serving as Uemon no jo (the third ranked official of the Right Division of Outer Palace Guards), Kebiishi (an official with judicial and police powers), Assistant governor of Sagami Province and Shimotsuke no kuni no kami (the governor of Shimotsuke Province) and reached Jugoinoge (Junior Fifth Rank, Lower Grade) (according to "Sonpi Bunmyaku" [a text compiled in the fourteenth century that records the lineages of the aristocracy]).
都における中級官人として活動し、右衛門尉、検非違使、相模国介、下野国守などを歴任し極位は従五位下であったとされる（『尊卑分脈』）。