According to the notes and additional remarks of No. 1219, "Gosen Wakashu (the second of the Imperial anthologies of classical Waka poetry) Vol. 17, Miscellaneous 3," she was a 'famous, tasteful woman' who lived in Shirakawa in Tsukushi Province; when FUJIWARA no Okinari, a senior assistant governor-general of Government Headquarters in Kyushu, asked her to fetch water, she is to be said to have composed a poem which reads, 'Time has passed and my once black hair has turned white, and I have fallen so low that now I have to fetch water from the Shirakawa River myself.'
『後撰和歌集・巻第十七・雑三』、1219番の詞書と付記によれば、筑紫国の白河という所に住んでいた「名高く、事好む女」で、大宰大弐・藤原興範に水を汲むよう乞われると、「年ふればわが黒髪も白河の　みづはくむまで老いにけるかも」と詠んだという。