After the death of her mother, she was almost forced to move from a mountain villa in Ono, where she lived in seclusion, to the principal residence of Ichijo no Miya, and then Yugiri proposed marriage to her.
母御息所の死後、夕霧の手によって半ば強引に隠棲していた小野山荘から本邸の一条宮に移されて求婚される。