After Meiji Restoration, she had an influential voice in politics and wrote many petitions that earned her a nickname "petition lady" although because her ideas based on Confucianism conflicted with the new government's policy that placed importance on the cultures of Europe and America, the prominent people of the new government gradually stayed away from her.
明治維新後は皇后付き女官として政治的にも絶大な発言力を誇るようになり、建白書を多く書いたことから「建白女」とあだ名されるまでに至るが、儒教に根本を置く彼女の理想は、欧米文化を重視する新政府の方針と対立することが多く、次第に新政府要人から警戒されるようになる。