He was a valet of the fifth Shogun Tsunayoshi TOKUGAWA and rose to the position of Sobayonin, but the sixth Shogun Ienobu TOKUGAWA dismissed him from office and kept him away from the shogunate government.
第5代将軍・徳川綱吉に近侍し、側用人にまで出世するが、徳川家宣が第6代将軍となると、側用人を免ぜられて幕政から遠ざけられる。