When she was past forty, she became a lady-in-waiting for Gotoba in, and looked up at the moon at court again, but recalling the old days composed the poem 'The past that I force myself to forget even now, the clear moon calls me to remember.'
四十歳を過ぎた頃、後鳥羽院に再出仕し、再び九重の月を仰いだが、「今はただしひて忘るるいにしへを思ひ出でよとすめる月かげ」と詠んで昔を偲んだ。