Her father Hyobukyo no Miya rarely visited her (due to pressure from his legal wife), and her mother died soon after she was born, so she was brought up by her grandmother, Kitayama no Amagimi (a nun).
正妻による圧力のために父兵部卿宮の訪問は間遠で、生まれてすぐ母は亡くなり、その後は祖母の北山の尼君に育てられた。