In 1668 he met Shogun Ietsuna TOKUGAWA for the first time, and after Tsunayoshi TOKUGAWA became Shogun in 1680, he moved to the Edo-jo Castle followed by Tokumatsu TOKUGAWA, the heir of Tsunayoshi, and was raised to the peerage of bakufu gokenin (an immediate vassal of the Shogunate in the Kamakura and Muromachi through Edo periods) with 800 bales of kirimai (salary).
寛文8年（1668年）にはじめて将軍徳川家綱にお目見えし、延宝8年（1680年）徳川綱吉が将軍となると、綱吉の嫡男・徳川徳松に従う形で江戸城へ移り、切米800俵の幕府御家人に列した。