Among her many brothers and sisters, Akenomiya had been so bright and intellectual since childhood that her father, the Emperor, particularly favored her, as well as her half-sister by different mother, Imperial Princess Tsuneko.
多くの兄弟姉妹中で幼い頃から聡明であった内親王は異母妹である常子内親王とともに父帝より特別に寵愛されたという。