After the deaths of her husband, the Emperor Monmu and her father FUJIWARA no Fuhito, Miyako was conferred Junii (Junior Second Rank) in 723, and Shoichii (Senior First Rank) as well as Oomioya (meaning the mother of the emperor but the title in official documents was Kotaifujin [the wife of the previous retired emperor]) in 724, when the Prince Obito acceded to the throne, and yet it took a long time before her illness was cured.
夫天皇、父不比等等肉親の死を経て、723年に従二位に叙され、首皇子が即位した翌724年には正一位、大御祖（文書では皇太夫人）の称号を受けたが病は癒えなかった。