She lived in the inner palace surrounded by many beautiful and talented women including Empress FUJIWARA no Anshi and Senyoden no Nyogo FUJIWARA no Hoshi (or Yoshiko), yet Queen Kishi's exceptional talents in waka poetry and in playing the koto, which she had inherited from her father, were especially famous, and she was known as an expert at the kokin (a musical instrument, like the koto).
中宮藤原安子、宣耀殿女御藤原芳子など美女才女の多い後宮にあって徽子女王の父譲りの和歌と琴の天分は名高く、ことに古琴の名手であったといわれる。