However, in and after the movements to change cultural policies in the Meiji Restoration, females became able to work as entertainers legally, based on the regulation for controlling yose (rakugo theatres) established in 1877.
しかし、明治維新以降の文化政策の改変のなかで、1877年の寄席取締規則によって女性の芸人が法的にも認められるようになる。