His rank promotion was fast and he was the first to have been appointed to be the Minister of the Right, but he was killed by Yoriie's child Kugyo in the assault at Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gu Shrine next year.
官位の昇進も早く武士として初めて右大臣に任ぜられるが、その翌年に鶴岡八幡宮で頼家の子公暁に襲われ落命した。