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Kaoru Otsuki

Second wife of Sun Yat-sen

The native form of this personal name is Otsuki Kaoru. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Kaoru Otsuki (Japanese: 大月 薰, romanized:&#;Ōtsuki Kaoru; 6 August – 21 December ) 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

Kaoru first met Sun Yat-sen in Yokohama's Chinatown in , when she knocked over a vase and apologized to Sun.[1] In , 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 A year later, Sun proposed marriage again and Kaoru's father relented.

Kaoru and Sun's wedding ceremony was held in Yokohama in upon his return to Japan after two years.[2] At the time, Sun was still married to his first wife, Lu Muzhen.

Biography ni sun yat sen wikipedia english Sun Yat-sen, leader of the Chinese Nationalist Party, known as the father of modern China. Influential in overthrowing the Qing dynasty (/12), he served as the first provisional president of the Republic of China (–12) and later as de facto ruler (–25).

However, Sun left Japan for China before Kaoru gave birth to their daughter, Fumiko, on 12 May ;[2] he never returned to see his daughter. Out of financial desperation, Kaoru sent Fumiko to the Miyagawa family for adoption in 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 , after the latter visited the Tokoji Temple with her eldest son.[2]

Kaoru died on 21 December at the age of [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 [4]

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    Mao zedong wikipedia Sun Wen, Sun Zhongshan or Sun Yat-sen (12 November – 12 March ) was born in China and was a Chinese political leader. Sun helped overthrow the Qing Dynasty in October during the Xinhai Revolution. This was the last imperial dynasty of China. He is often called as Father of the Nation.

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