In 1804, she was housed in O-oku of nishi no maru (a castle compound to the west of the main compound) as kojoro (certain daughters or granddaughters of daijin [the Ministers of State], nagon [the Counselors], and sangi [the Consultants] and other kugyo [senior nobles]) serving princess Takako, who had married into the Arisugawanomiya family as gorenju (title of honor for legal wife of aristocrat as daijin, cabinet minister and kugyo, court noble) of Ieyoshi TOKUGAWA, the heir of the Shogun family.
文化(元号)元年（1804年）に将軍家継嗣・徳川家慶の御簾中として輿入れした有栖川宮家の喬子女王付の小上臈として西ノ丸大奥に入った。