Okanoue Kikue

In this Japanese name, the family name is "Okanoue".

Okanoue Kikue (岡上　菊栄^?, Born 1867, died 1947.) Niece of Sakamoto Ryōma. Her father was Jyuan, a doctor, and it is said her mother was Otome, the older sister of Ryoma. When Kikue was two years old, the families lost contact. She didn't have much contact with Sakamoto and to this day, their relationship remains a bit of a mystery. (This is the source of controversy concerning her actual relationship with Sakamoto.) When she was five, her father died and she was left to live with her uncle's house in Kagami Village. At the age of 14, she entered Kōchi's "Eiwa Women's School" run by Annie Dowd of Missouri, USA. After that she became a teacher and worked as an elementary school teacher for 21 years. After that, she became the head teacher of a Kōchi Hakuaien orphanage. She raised her own five children along with the orphans in the school. She devoted her whole life to this cause, but at the time, she wasn't well understood by society. She raised 356 children. The orphanage she ran stood at the site of the current Shin Hankyu Hotel in Honmachi, Kōchi City, but was destroyed during the Kōchi fire bombing of July 4, 1945. ^[1]

土佐人物ものがたり, Kubota Zentarou, Shiota Masatoshi, Nakata Masayuki, Yoshimoto Aoshi, 1986 Kochi City, Kochi Prefecture

1. ^ 土佐人物ものがたり

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Name	Kikue, Okanoue
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