The Akashi Priest, who had abandoned the rank of Konoe no chujo (middle captain of the palace guards), became the governor of a province, settled in Akashi and then took tonsure, believed a revelation from a dream that a prospective emperor and empress would be born to his daughter (in other words, his daughter would become the mother of an emperor).
近衛中将の位を捨て明石の受領となり剃髪した入道は、自分の娘から将来天皇と皇后が生まれる（すなわち「国母（天皇の生母）」の母となる）という夢のお告げを信じた。