Her father Siebold, who settled in a residence located in Narutaki, Nagasaki and returned to associate himself with his former disciples and his daughter Ine, continued his Japanese studies, and in 1861 he was invited by the bakufu (Japanese government headed by a shogun) to hold the post of diplomatic adviser in Edo (present Tokyo), where he also gave lectures on the European studies.
父シーボルトは、長崎・鳴滝に住居を構え昔の門人や娘・イネと交流し日本研究を続け、1861年幕府に招かれ外交顧問に就き江戸でヨーロッパの学問なども講義している。