She met not Okubo Tadayori, but Okubo "Sado-no-Kami (defender in Sado)" (his name was unwritten). She had a son Haruwaka-gimi, in "1857" (At that time, she was about "12 years old". It was Okubo Tadayori's birth year). In those days the woman of low social class couldn't marry a nobleman. Fictional story claimed that Kurosawa Gentatsu, a physician who lived in Nihonbashi, became her foster parent, the middle-class family. She changed her name to Hanayo and became a concubine (In fact she was a mistress). When her son was three years old, her husband died (Okubo Tadayori died in 1914. His father died in 1864). After his death she changed her name to Shingetsu-in. She became a Buddhist nun, and lived a calm life to pray for her dead husband followed the Japanese custom which is that a widow of high status entered nunhood after her husband died. She felt run-down in this life and went to Hakone. She fell in love with another man Kakutarō. She was exiled from the Okubo family (In fact, the Okubo family abandoned her, because Okubo Tadayori had a son by her). A part of her dying word was "Yoarashi" so she was called Yoarashi Okinu (unproved claim). References External links female murderers in Meiji era 1845 births 1872 deaths 1871 murders in Asia Geishas People executed by Japan by decapitation Poisoners Japanese female murderers 19th-century executions by Japan Executed Japanese people People executed for murder People convicted of murder by Japan Japanese people convicted of murder