Kaoru Otsuki

Kaoru Otsuki
Kaoru Otsuki
	Otsuki c. 1900
Born	6 August 1888; Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Died	21 December 1970 (aged 82); Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
Spouses	; Sun Yat-sen (m. 1905; a. 1906) ; Shūji Miwa (divorced) Motomune Sanekata;
Children	Fumiko Miyagawa (daughter); Motonobu Sanekata (son)
Japanese name
Hanyu Pinyin	Dàyuè Xūn
Wade–Giles	Ta4-yüeh4 Hsün1
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization	Daaih Yuht Fān
Jyutping	Daai6 Jyut6 Fan1

Kaoru Otsuki (Japanese: 大月薰, romanized: Ōtsuki Kaoru; 6 August 1888 – 21 December 1970) was a Japanese woman known for being the second wife of Sun Yat-sen, the founder and first president of the Republic of China.

Biography

Kaoru was born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, on 6 August 1888.

Kaoru first met Sun Yat-sen in Yokohama's Chinatown in 1898, when she knocked over a vase and apologized to Sun.^[1] In 1901, Sun asked Kaoru's father for permission to marry his daughter, but Kaoru's father refused because of the great age difference between Sun and Kaoru; at the time, Sun was 37 while Kaoru was only 13. A year later, Sun proposed marriage again and Kaoru's father relented. Kaoru and Sun's wedding ceremony was held in Yokohama in 1905 upon his return to Japan after two years.^[2] At the time, Sun was still married to his first wife, Lu Muzhen.

However, Sun left Japan for China before Kaoru gave birth to their daughter, Fumiko, on 12 May 1906;^[2] he never returned to see his daughter. Out of financial desperation, Kaoru sent Fumiko to the Miyagawa family for adoption in 1911. Kaoru later remarried twice, first to Shūji Miwa (三輪秀司), the younger brother of Shizuoka Bank president Shingorō Miwa (三輪新五郎), and then to Motomune Sanekata (實方元心), the Buddhist abbot of the Tokoji Temple in Ashikaga, Tochigi. She had a son named Motonobu Sanekata (实方元信) and a daughter with the latter.^[3]

Kaoru was reunited with her daughter Fumiko in 1955, after the latter visited the Tokoji Temple with her eldest son.^[2]

Kaoru died on 21 December 1970 at the age of 82.

Xinhai Revolution in Wuhan, China, in 2011.^[4]

References

Citations

^ ^a ^b "大月薰錄音帶揭孫文百年密婚". 民視新聞.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Japan-Revolution". Asia Sentinel. 4 May 2011. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
^ Zhang, Shi (31 August 2018). "谁为孙中山与日本妻子代写和翻译情书" [Who wrote and translated the love letters between Sun Yat-sen and his Japanese wives?]. The Nikkei (in Chinese). Retrieved 2 December 2022.
^ 孙中山82岁日本外孙受邀明年访问武汉(组图) (in Chinese). 新浪网. 1 April 2010. Retrieved 2 December 2022.