In 1860 he was assigned to Goyogakari (a general affairs official of the Imperial Household) for the marriage between the Imperial Princess Kazunomiya Chikako and the 14th Shogun Iemochi TOKUGAWA by the Emperor Komei as the kuge of kobu-gattai (integration of the imperial court and the shogunate) group.
公武合体派の公家として万延元年（1860年）、孝明天皇から和宮親子内親王と14代将軍徳川家茂の縁組の御用掛に任じられた。