In 1184, she sent a letter to Sukemori who had been in the southwest of the capital, but learned about his death in the water the next spring, and soon visited Jakko-in Temple, where she saw Kenrei Monin who had been rescued from the sea in Kyushu, and shed tears seeing how wretched she looked, composing this poem: 'I wander in confusion: is this a dream? Was the past a dream? However I try, I cannot believe in this reality.'
元暦元年（1184年）、西国にいる資盛へ手紙を遣わしたが、翌春にはその入水を知ることになり、間もなく西海から帰還した建礼門院を寂光院に訪れて、その変わり果てた姿に涙して「今や夢昔や夢と迷はれていかに思へどうつつとぞなき」と詠んだという。