In 975, at 27 years old, Imperial Princess Kishi was the imperial princess chosen to serve as high priestess of Ise for Emperor Enyu, so the following year in 976, Queen Kishi traveled with her daughter for the ceremonial first entry of the new high priestess; it was in the winter of that same year that Queen Kishi composed her famous Shofu nyu yakin (Into the Night of Koto Music Comes the Wind of the Pines) poem, during the poetry contest held at the temporary shrine of Ise.
天延3年（975年）、規子内親王が27歳で円融天皇の斎宮に選ばれると、翌貞元_(日本)元年（976年）の初斎院入りに徽子女王も同行、同年冬の野宮歌合では有名な「松風入夜琴」の歌を詠む。