Soon after her death, Tsunako was given the name Shinkokamonin as nyoingo (a title of respect given to close female relatives of the Emperor or a woman of comparable standing) and, in the following year 1824, also conferred a rank of empress.
死からまもなく繋子は女院号を贈られて新皇嘉門院と称され、さらに翌文政7年（1824年）には皇后位を追贈された。