Females came to narrate Gidayu in the early nineteenth century, during the latter half of the Edo period, but such plays by females declined after the Tenpo reforms by Tadakuni MIZUNO prohibited females from working as entertainers.
女性による義太夫語りは、江戸後期の文化(元号)文政ごろからおこなわれていたが、水野忠邦の天保の改革で女芸人が禁止されると廃れていった。