In reality, among the poems romantically exchanged between the Emperor and his ladies that are recorded in "Emperor Murakami's Imperial Poetry Anthology" and other collections, the poems sent to and by Queen Kishi, especially the courting poems before she entered the court, stand out from the rest, and are quite numerous.
事実『村上御集』等に残る天皇と妃たちの相聞歌の中でも、入内前の求愛の歌を始め徽子女王と交わした詠歌は群を抜いて多い。