He got shoryo (territory) in Shinano Province with his elder brother Yorikiyo and became an ancestor of the Shinano-Genji Inoue clan (Yorikiyo was an ancestor of the Murakami clan).
兄・頼清と共に信濃国に所領を得て、信濃源氏井上氏の祖となった（頼清は村上氏の祖）。