In 1860, when Imperial Princess Kazunomiya Chikako, who was a sister of the Emperor Komei, was engaged to marry Iemochi TOKUGAWA, who was Seitaishogun (commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force against the barbarians, great, unifying leader) in the form of koka (the marriage of an Imperial princess to an ordinary person), she was ordered to serve Princess Kazunomiya and went down to Edo with her.
万延元年（1860年）、孝明天皇の皇妹和宮親子内親王の征夷大将軍である徳川家茂への降嫁が決まると、和宮付きを命ぜられてともに江戸へ下った。