Several years after, he was allowed to return to Kyoto during the Oho era, and according to "Ryojin-hisho" (Songs to make the dust dance on the beams), he later became kinshu (attendant) to Goshirakawa-in (Retired Emperor Goshirakawa), who once was his enemy.
数年を経て応保年間には帰洛が許され、その後かつての敵である後白河院の近習となっていたことが『梁塵秘抄』に見える。