The first half of the collection starts with an incident in 1174, and while praising the empress's auspiciousness and the glory of the Taira family, she places her love affair with a younger noble, TAIRA no Sukemori (the Empress's nephew) at the center of the story, and describes the process by which she also became intimate with a famous poet and a painter, FUJIWARA no Takanobu.
家集の前半は承安4年（1174年）の出来事に起筆し、中宮のめでたさや平家の栄華を讃えながら、年下の貴公子平資盛（中宮の甥）との恋愛を主軸に据え、歌人・画家として有名な藤原隆信とも交渉を持った経過を述べる。