It is also said that, before marrying Ogi, he was in love with a geisha in Kyoto and that, when the geisha came to see his stage work, he performed using a Japanese folding fan that carried the emblem of his stage family name, Narikoma-ya (in those days) on its front side and the emblem used by the geisha on its back side.
また、扇と結婚する前は、京都に相思相愛の芸妓がいたと言われており、その芸妓が自身の出演している舞台に訪れると、表は成駒屋（当時）の紋、裏はその芸妓が用いていた紋をあしらった扇で、舞台を務めたと言われる。