Her family business was Japanese style hairdressing, and while growing up she saw Tayu and Geigi (geisha), who visited her home as customers, watched her mother doing their hair, learned dancing and tea ceremony from an early age, and became the Tayu for a Yakata (also Okiya, a geisha residence) called Kikuharuro.
実家が結髪師で客として来る太夫、芸妓、その髪を結う母を見て育ち、幼少の頃から舞踊、茶道など習い、20代で屋形（置屋）『菊春楼』の太夫となる。