Since the poems in the Manyoshu showed that she had been in Prince Takechi's palace, it is said that that she might have been his wife, or that she would have been fed by her oldest brother, Prince Takechi.
高市皇子の宮にいたことが、万葉集の題詞にみえており、彼の妻ではなかったかとする説、また兄弟中最年長であった高市皇子に養われていたとする説がある。