He successively filled the posts of Echizen no kami (Governor of Echizen Province), Goi no kurodo (Kurodo with the fifth rank), Omi no suke (Assistant governor of Omi Province) and Deputy General of Imperial Guard of the Right and so on, and in October 1130, he was appointed to Kurodo no to (Head Chamberlain) and the next year in 1131, he became a Sangi (councilor) and after that the promotion continued to the post of Naidaijin (the Minister of the center) in 1161.
越前守、五位蔵人、近江介・右近中将などを歴任、大治5年（1130年）10月に崇徳天皇の蔵人頭に補任され、翌年の天承元年（1131年）参議となり、以後累進して永暦2年（1161年）に内大臣に至る。