He served Hidetada TOKUGAWA, the second shogunate, and became a sobashu and ometsuke (chief inspector of the Edo shogunate) of Iemitsu TOKUGAWA, the third shogunate through the positions of oban (a group of guards in the Edo shogunate) and konando (steward to the shogun).
-2代将軍徳川秀忠に仕え、大番・小納戸を経て3代将軍徳川家光の側衆・大目付となった。