He was the second head of the Shibayama family, a Tosho-ke (the hereditary lineage of Court nobles occupying relatively high ranks) (the family ranked as Meike (an important family), and belonged to the Kanshuji branch of the Takafuji line of the Northern House of the Fujiwara clan).
堂上家（家格は名家、藤原氏北家高藤流勧修寺庶流）である芝山家の2代当主。