According to "Masukagami," the poem which she composed in the Sengohyaku ban uta-awase, 'I can see the green of young grass, which varies shades of light and dark, and patches of fading snow,' was so good that she was called 'Wakakusa no Kunaikyo' (wakakusa means young grass).
千五百番歌合に出詠した「うすくこき野辺のみどりの若草に跡までみゆる雪のむら消え」という歌があまりに優れていたために「若草の宮内卿」と呼ばれたという逸話が『増鏡』に見える。