After working as Gon Chunagon (a provisional vice-councilor of state) and Toka no sechie Geben (a Kugyo who supervised the event of toka [ceremonial mass singing and stomp dancing] called Toka no sechie held at the Imperial Court on around the fifteenth day of the first month of the year), he was assigned to Gon Dainagon in 1699.
権中納言・踏歌節会外弁を経て元禄12年（1699年）に権大納言に就任。