His life was tossed about by political confusion, and was an unhappy one; for example, Tokiwai dono (mansion), his ancestral home, was burned down in war during July 1467.
が、先祖伝来の館・常盤井殿が応仁元年（1467年）6月に兵火にあい全焼するなど、政治の混乱に翻弄され、不遇な生涯であった。