She lost her father when she was seven, and she was brought up by the Chiten no kimi, Shirakawa in (the seventy-second Emperor Shirakawa) and the woman he loved the most, Gionnyogo at that time.
七歳にして父を失い、時の治天の君白河院（第72代白河天皇）とその寵姫・祇園女御に養われた。