However, she was replaced as empress by Kanpaku FUJIWARA no Yoritada's daughter, FUJIWARA no Junshi (Nobuko), despite the fact that Senshi had given birth to Emperor Enyu's only child, and she secluded herself in her parental home of Higashi Sanjo dono, both she and her father hating the Emperor and refusing to respond to his summons.
ところが円融天皇の一粒種を生みながら、関白藤原頼忠の女藤原遵子に后の座を奪われたことで、父兼家と共に天皇を恨んで里邸の東三条邸にこもり、天皇のたびたびの召還にも応じなかった。