Though the precise date is not known, it was said that Akenomiya had an offer of marriage to Ietsuna TOKUGAWA, the fourth Tokugawa shogun, on the recommendation of her adoptive mother, Tofukumonin.
時期は不明であるが、養母東福門院の薦めにより、四代将軍徳川家綱との縁談が持ち上がったこともあるという。