Although she was from the Rokujo Toke (Rokujo Fujiwara family), which competed with the Mikohidari family, his mother was not gifted with the capabilities of political operations and ceremonies of the Imperial Court or waka poetry, and when she participated in Dairi Utaawase (Poem contest in the Palace) on September 17, 1215, her father, Teika, severely criticized her waka with saying that 'her waka was awfully out of line with the waka poetry rules and was terribly ashamed.'
母は御子左家と競合関係にあった六条藤家の出身であったが、公事や和歌の才能に恵まれず、建保3年（1215年）8月15日の内裏歌合では評者であった父・定家から「太尾籠、赧面無極（和歌のルールに適っていないことはなはだしく、恥ずかしいことこの上ない）」と酷評される有様であった。