Queen Kishi, known by her popular name Saigu nyogo (the High Priestess and Court Lady), became empress starting after Imperial Princess Asahara, Empress to Emperor Heizei, and was part of the first mother-daughter, two-generation monopoly of the position of high priestess at Ise since Imperial Princess Sakahito and her daughter Imperial Princess Asahara.
「斎宮女御」の通称で知られる徽子女王は、前斎宮としては平城天皇妃朝原内親王以来の皇妃であり、また母娘二代の斎宮となったのも酒人内親王・朝原内親王以来であった。