According to "Sandai Jitsuroku" (the True History of the Three Reigns of Japan), the ceremony for her dispatch to Ise as a Saigu was conducted not by the Emperor himself, but by his deputy, FUJIWARA no Yoshimi (Yoshiau), who was Udaijin (Minister of the Right).
『三代実録』によると、発遣の儀は天皇自身ではなく、右大臣の藤原良相が代理であたったという。