It is said that while he inherited Shoryo (territory) of Yamagata-gun, Mino-no-kuni (Gifu Prefecture) from his father, he served as Saiinshi no suke (Vice minister of Office of the High Priestess of Kamo-jinja Shrine) and so on in Kyoto and was promoted to Jugoinoge (Junior Fifth Rank, Lower Grade) ("Sonpi Bunmyaku", a text compiled in the fourteenth century that records the lineages of the aristocracy).
父より美濃国山県郡(岐阜県)の所領を継承する一方、都で斎院次官などを務めて従五位下に昇ったとされる（『尊卑分脈』）。