Furthermore, as a politician he took price stabilization measures by adjusting the commodity valuation system (after Michinaga and Sanesuke died court nobilities no longer worked on public policy, which became a remote cause for the effective control of political authority to be seized by Insei (Administration from the Office of the Retired Emperor) and by military regime by the warrior class).
また、政治家としては估価法の整備などの物価対策などにも取り組んだ（道長や実資が死ぬと公卿が社会政策に取り組む事はなくなり、院政や武家政権に政治の実権を奪われる遠因となる）。