She seems to have been a charming and modest woman ("Okagami "(the Great Mirror)" and "Eiga Monogatari",) and the Emperor was greatly shocked and disappointed about her death in addition to the death of Teishi.
美しく控えめな性格の女性であったといい（『大鏡』『栄花物語』）、天皇は定子に続く彼女の死にいたく落胆したという。