This incident was written as a tragedy in "The Tale of Heike," but according to the anthology of waka poems by Takafusa REIZEI "Tsuyakotoba," Kogo was still seeing Takafusa although she was loved by the Emperor, it shows there was no strict morality within the Imperial Palace in those days.
この一件は『平家物語』では悲劇とされるが、冷泉隆房の歌集『艶詞』によるともともと高倉の寵愛を受けていたはずであった小督がその後も隆房と密通を重ねており、当時の宮中の風紀の乱れの一例である。