On the other hand, her biological mother Ichida placed her younger brother Moritsune ICHIDA to the position of Satsumahan issho mochi (position only reserved for Shimazu clan) with her power and acted as if she was a lawful wife of Shigehide after sending Shigehide's another concubine Tsutsumi who was Narinobu SHIMAZU's mother and a daughter of Kuge (Shunkoin (a concubine of Shigehide SHIMAZU)) to Kagoshima from Edo.
一方、実母である市田氏はその権勢により弟の市田盛常を薩摩藩一所持格（本来島津一族でないとなれない地位）に取り立て、同じ重豪側室で島津斉宣の母である公家の娘・堤氏（春光院(島津重豪側室)）を江戸から鹿児島県に追いだし、自らは重豪の正室同様に振る舞ったのである。