 Takao II would be one of between six and eleven courtesans to hold the "myōseki" (inherited name) of Takao.She is particularly famous for her affair with daimyō Date Tsunamune; some time after her death, her story would be featured in kabuki (in the play titled "Meiboku Sendai Hagi"), in song and literature, though much of it would be fabricated and fictionalized.According to the tale, Date Tsunamune, the young daimyō of Mutsu, visited the Yoshiwara as the result of a dispute involving family politics.