After this, Yoritsuna became a priest, and as his children were all small, his younger brother Tomonari SHIONOYA came to enter government service on behalf of the Utsunomiya family.
頼綱出家の後、頼綱の子等はすべて幼少であったため、弟の塩谷朝業が宇都宮家を代表して幕府に出仕することとなる。