In 974, when her father was appointed Governor of Suo Province, she accompanied him and spent four years in the 'countryside' (the description of a sea trip in "The Pillow Book" is so realistic that it can't be a figment of her imagination, so she seems to have traveled to the west by sea).
天延2年（974年）、父の周防国守赴任に際し同行、4年の歳月を「鄙」にて過ごす（『枕草子』における船旅の描写は、単なる想像とは認めがたい迫真性があり、あるいは作者は水路を伝って西下したか）。