At the age of 20, she went up to Kyoto to become geisya (a woman who gives fun with a song, a dance or a music instrument at a feast) and gave birth to a boy, however, since her son was an illegitimate child, she took him and went back to her hometown, Hikone.
20歳になり京都に上って、祇園で芸妓となり、その際男子をもうけるが、私生児であった為に自らが引き取り生まれ故郷の彦根に戻る。