Among other topics, she wrote of her married life with her husband FUJIWARA no Kaneie, her struggles with Kaneie's second wife Tokihime (the mother of FUJIWARA no Michinaga), and her husband's habit of taking one mistress after another.
夫である藤原兼家との結婚生活や、兼家のもうひとりの妻である時姫（藤原道長の母）との競争、夫に次々とできる妻妾のことが書かれている。