Since her infancy, she learned classical Japanese dance, tea ceremony, flower arrangement and koto music among others, and after graduating from junior high school, she joined a yakata (okiya or geisha dwelling) at Gion Kobu to get training and at the age of 16 she became maiko.
幼少の頃から日本舞踊、茶道、華道、箏曲等を習い、中学卒業後、祇園甲部の屋形（置屋）に入り修業の後16歳で舞妓になる。