While he held various positions such as Uchujo (Middle Captain of the Right Division of Inner Palace Guards), Sangi (Royal Advisors) and Sakyo no Daibu (Master of the Eastern Capital Offices) in succession, he was known as a tanka poet and a person with good handwriting and he taught penmanship to FUJIWARA no Tadamichi.
右中将、参議、左京大夫などを歴任する一方、歌人・能書家としてもその名を知られ、藤原忠通の書の師範を務めたほどであった。