In the year 928, he was promoted to the rank of Gon Risshi (generally in Shingon sect, fifteenth-ranking Buddhist priest, literally, "supernumerary master of discipline") and appointed the second abbot of To-ji Temple, and he also conducted Kujaku Kyobo (the ritual for averting disasters, particularly in prayers for rain, against illness in the imperial family, and for safe childbirth of the empress) and nenbutsu (Buddhist invocation) rituals when Emperor Daigo fell ill.
928年（延長(元号)6年）権律師・東寺二長者に任じられ、醍醐天皇が病気の際には孔雀経法や念仏を持って奉仕した。