"Genshokanki" (Records between 1688 and 1716 in Japan) describes some years after her death that she had been a younger sister of Japanese radish seller and "Gyokuyoki" (Biography of Kiyoyasu MATSUDAIRA's wife, Keyoin-dono) in later time describes that her father had been Nizaemon running a vegetable store and her father in law was Tarobe Munemasa KITAKOJI.
死後、やや経ってからの『元正間記』では大根売りの妹、さらに後の時代の『玉輿記』では父は八百屋の仁左衛門で養父が北小路太郎兵衛宗正という説が記されている。