Masaruko was in Emperor Nijo's favor, but she sorrowed that she didn't become a priest when Emperor Konoe died, and the reentry into the inner palace was not according to her will; she wrote a poem `I have had so many difficulties, yet came back to the palace and view the moon that used to be the moon I once viewed' ("Heike Monogatari" (The Tale of the Heike)).
多子は二条天皇の寵愛深かったが、この再入内は多子の望みではなく近衛天皇が崩御したとき出家しなかったことを嘆き、「おもひきや、うき身ながらにめぐりきて、をなじ雲井の月を見んとは（憂き身の上ながら、また再び宮中に戻ってきて昔ながらの月を眺めようとは…）」と歌を詠んだ（『平家物語』）。