 Her contemporaries include Uma no Naishi, Murasaki Shikibu, and Sei Shōnagon.A diptych of her exists in "Nihon Meijo Banashi" (Stories of Famous Japanese Women), implying that although little of her work exists into modernity, she was considered a critically important figurehead of the "waka" poetry movement, both as a Poetry Immortal and as a woman of renown.Her grandfather Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu was also an important "waka" poet.