High-class Japanese-style restaurants and yukaku (red-light districts) in which maiko (apprentice geisha) dance in time to songs by geisha, shamisen and ohayashi became popular among the common people.
芸妓の唄・三味線・お囃子で舞妓が舞い踊る華やかな料亭・遊郭は、庶民の人気を集めた。