As a propping up of the ruling basis of Shioya-gun County, he succeeded to the SHIONOYA clan as an adopted son of Tomoyoshi SHIONOYA, who did not have a successor.
塩谷郡の統治基盤のてこ入れとして、後継者の無い塩谷朝義の養子として塩谷氏を継ぐ。