Her mother divorced early on and became the wife of Azechi Dainagon, so she was brought up by her grandmother Omiya together with Yugiri, who was a child of Hikaru genji and also had Omiya as his grandmother, and due to this they grew to love each other since childhood.
母は早くに離縁し按察大納言の北の方となっており、祖母に当たる大宮(源氏物語)のもとで、同じく大宮を祖母に持つ光源氏の子、夕霧(源氏物語)とともに養育され、幼少から恋し合った。