In 1858, he attended the demonstration that claimed to prevent the Imperial sanction to be issued for the Treaty of amity and commerce between the United States and Japan, as he was one of the members of "hachiju-hachi kyo" (the eighty-eight retainers of Imperial Court) which included Tadayasu NAKAYAMA and Tomomi IWAKURA who also attended the demonstration; This affair was called "Demo of eighty-eight retainers of Imperial Court."
安政5年（1858年）には日米修好通商条約へ勅許を出すことに反対するため、中山忠能・岩倉具視らとともに八十八卿の一人として抗議の列参をし、勅許を阻止した（廷臣八十八卿列参事件）。