It is not clear whether it was the deaths of her maternal grandfather Tadahira and her father Shigeaki in particular, or her own illness, or because of her unique position as a former high priestess of Ise, but whatever the cause, it appears she had a tendency to shut herself up in rural seclusion and hardly ever made her way to Court.
特に外祖父忠平と父重明の死後は自身の病、また前斎宮という特異な身の上もあってか、なかなか参内せず里にこもりがちであったらしい。