Therefore, it can be inferable that like his elder brothers and nephews, he was one of the rich military aristocrats that belonged to the career provincial official class with vested interest and were closely associated with the family of FUJIWARA no Michinaga.
このことなどから、兄や甥などと同じく藤原道長一族に近侍する受領層の富裕な軍事貴族であったことが推察されている。