Although we tend to think that she married into the lowest-ranked family among the three sisters, we might say that she married into the highest-ranked family, because the Kyogoku family was, compared with newly-risen Toyotomi family and Tokugawa family, the distinguished feudal lord family which governed several provinces and counted as one of Shishiki in the Muromachi period.
三姉妹のなかで一番格下の家に嫁いだと思われがちだが、新興の豊臣家や徳川家に比べ、京極家は室町時代に数ヶ国の守護を兼ね、四職に列した名門の大名家であり、一番格上の家に嫁いだといえる。