 Ayame traveled to Edo for the first time in 1690, and performed at the Morita-za and Nakamura-za for three years.He would return to Edo again, briefly, in November 1695, performing at the Yamamura-za under the stage name Yoshizawa Kikunojō.When in Kamigata (Kyoto and Osaka), however, he always went by Ayame.