She attended drinking parties as a maiko (apprentice geisha, at the time, maiko attended drinking parties at the age of about 10 years) in her early teens, and she became a Geisha at the age of 15; thereafter, attending parties as a dancer, Miyako Odori (dance performance held in April by geisha and maiko in Kyoto's Gion district) and Onshukai Dance Performance.
10代前半で舞妓から出て（当時、舞妓は10歳前後でお座敷に出ていた）、15歳のころに衿替えをし、以来、祇園の舞い手としてお座敷や『都をどり』、『温習会』などで活躍した。