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 (Provisional Vice-councilor of State), and was promoted to Gon Dainagon (Provisional Chief Councilor of State) in 1648.
その後も踏歌節会外弁・権中納言を経て、慶安元年（1648年）に権大納言となる。