When she died, the rumor spread saying she died due to the anger of deities of Kasuga-taisha Shrine, which was a private deity of the FUJIWARA family, because she became an empress consort as the adopted daughter of the FUJIWARA family though she originally had been a member of the Minamoto clan.
逝去当時、源氏でありながら藤原氏の養女として立后した事で、藤原氏の氏神である春日大社の神の怒りを買った為に亡くなったのだという噂が流れた。