Because her elder sister Kaneko was the wet nurse of the Emperor Horikawa, she started to serve for the Emperor Horikawa in 1100 and was appointed to Naishi no suke (a court lady of the first rank) in 1101.
姉兼子が堀河天皇の乳母であったことから、康和2年（1100年）堀河天皇に仕え、翌康和3年（1101年）に典侍に任じられた。