"Tentoku Sannen Hachigatsu Jūrokunichi Tōshi Gyōji Ryakki" (天徳三年八月十六日闘詩行事略記) records that on the 16th day of the eighth month of Tentoku 3 (21 September 959 in the Julian calendar) he was in attendance on the Team of the Right in a poetry event, and that he was at that time an assistant palace secretary (少内記 "shōnaiki").