 In 1823, his court rank became Senior Fourth Rank, Lower Grade.His wife was a daughter of Tokugawa Munetake, of the Tayasu-Tokugawa family, one of the "Gosankyō", the three lesser branches of the Tokugawa clan.His tenure was largely uneventful, and he is remembered for the creation of a han school in 1807 in Fukui specializing in medicine.