Okitsugu was selected as the Nishinomaru (west compound of the Edo castle) pageboy to Ieshige TOKUGAWA, the ninth shogun, and inherited the stipend of 600 koku of rice on his father's death in 1735.
意次は第9代将軍となる徳川家重の西丸小姓として抜擢され、享保20年（1735年）に父の遺跡600石を継ぐ。