Kaoru Otsuki (Japanese: 大月 薰, romanized: Ōtsuki Kaoru; 6 August 1888 – 21 December 1970) was the second wife of Sun Yat-sen, the founder and first president of the Republic of China.
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 Kaori; 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] and 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.[1] The governments of the People's Republic of China (mainland China) and the Republic of China (Taiwan) have both acknowledged Kaoru's marriage to Sun Yat-sen, and their grandson by Fumiko was invited to the centennial celebrations of the Xinhai Revolution in Wuhan, China, in 2011.[4]
^ abc"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.
Sources
李敖 (1987). 《李敖論孫中山》 (in Chinese). 臺灣: 全能出版社.
陳錫祺 (1991). 《孫中山年谱長編》, 第1卷 (in Chinese). 中國: 中华书局. ISBN9787101006858.
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