Kinjo no Mikado and Emperor Reizei asked Tamakazura to let them marry her two daughters, Oigimi (oldest sister) and Naka no Kimi, but Mikado had already been married to young lady Akashi, her sister-in-law, and Emperor Reizei had Kokiden no nyogo (Empress Kokiden), her older sister by a different mother, so she did not know what to do.
姫君二人（大君、中の君）には、今上帝(源氏物語)や冷泉帝から声がかかるが、帝には義妹の明石の姫君が、冷泉院には異母姉の弘徽殿女御がいるため、玉鬘は判断に迷っていた。