While living as a nun, it is said that she taught reading and writing to local children in a Terakoya (temple elementary school in the Edo period), did sericulture, and weaved cloth to earn money to raise her three princesses.
尼としての生活の傍ら、寺子屋で近所の子供たちに読み書きを教え、蚕を育て、織物を作り得た収入で、3人の姫を養育する日々だったという。