KAMO no Chomei commented in "Mumyosho" (an essay on tanka poetry) that 'Kunaikyo is good at composing poems and can face the great poets in the past without embarrassment,' referring to an episode that 'she pondered poems so deeply that she fell sick' and got worse, but she turned a deaf ear to the protests of her father, devoting herself to poetry, and died young.
鴨長明『無名抄』では宮内卿を「昔にも恥じぬ上手」と評し、「あまり歌を深く案じて病になりて」重篤に陥ったが、父の諌めをも聞かずに歌にうちこんだため早世した、という逸話を紹介している。