After World War II, it became difficult to start training children due to the enactment of Child Welfare Law and the red-light districts declined with the entertainment and service industries becoming more diversified whereby the number of geigi continued to dwindle down.
第二次世界大戦以後は、児童福祉法の制定によって子どもの頃から仕込むことが困難になり、娯楽と接客の多様化により花柳界も衰退し、芸妓の数は減り続けた。