After that, she started living apart from her husband because he became Shogun-kokenshoku (one of three major posts of Edo bakufu) and accompanied Shogun Iemochi TOKUGAWA to Kyoto.
更に、その後夫が将軍後見職となり、将軍徳川家茂と共に京都に向かい、長い別居生活にはいる。