It flourished as the biggest brothel in Kyoto during the later Edo period and the Meiji period, and in the Taisho period it owned rows of three-storey buildings.
江戸後期、明治期には京都で最大な遊廓として繁栄し、大正時代には三階建ての妓楼が立ち並ぶまでとなる。