In 2002, when his stage name was Ganjiro, it was scooped by a weekly photo magazine that, when he secretly saw an apprentice geisha (later on, a geisha) of Kyoto at a hotel, he opened his bathrobe and exposed himself.
鴈治郎時代の2002年、京都のある舞妓（後に芸妓）とホテルで密会し、バスローブをはだけて、自身の陰部を露出させたことが写真週刊誌にスクープされた。