While Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI was in the position of Kanpaku Dajodaijin (imperial regent and grand minister) (1585), Tokitsune YAMASHINA, who was the family head of the Yamashita family at that moment, was punished by Imperial order and demoted to a remote province, so that Noritoshi, who was from a branch family, served the Imperial Court, taking over Tokitsune's position as the representative of the Yamashina family.
豊臣秀吉が関白太政大臣のころ（天正13年（1585年））、当時の当主であった山科言経が勅勘を蒙って地方へ下ったため、庶流であった教利が山科家を代表して朝廷に仕えた。