Furthermore, when she found out that the angry emperor asked her brothers to make her behave, she went up to the emperor and made him take down that order that it could be seen that she was a person with a big temper and also showed her influential power as the birth mother of the imperial prince (This pottery throwing anecdote made appearance in manga of Reiko OKANO, "Onmyoji" [diviner and shaman]).
しかもそれに立腹した天皇が安子の兄弟らに謹慎を命じると、天皇に詰めよってついに撤回させてしまったというから、話半分としても気性の激しい女性だったようであり、また皇太子の生母としての彼女の影響力の大きさが伺える。（なお、この土器投げの逸話は岡野玲子の漫画『陰陽師』に登場する）