After those stories including being adopted to and served the Kushige family, she took the name of the Tachibana clan in her teens, then as 'Tomeko OE,' she became a lady in waiting of the Imperial Princess Kazunomiya Fusako.
養女となり櫛笥家に仕えるなどの経緯をへて、十代のころには橘氏を名乗り「大江留子」として籌宮成子内親王の侍女となった。