Kaoru Otsuki

Kaoru Otsuki
Otsuki c. 1900
Born	(1888-08-06)6 August 1888 Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Died	21 December 1970(1970-12-21) (aged 82) Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
Spouse(s)	Sun Yat-sen ​ ​ (m. 1905; sep. 1906)​ Shūji Miwa ​ (divorced)​ Motomune Sanekata
Children	Fumiko Miyagawa (daughter) Motonobu Sanekata (son)
Chinese name
Chinese	大月薰
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Dàyuè Xūn Wade–Giles Ta4-yüeh4 Hsün1 Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization Daaih Yuht Fān Jyutping Daai6 Jyut6 Fan1
Japanese name
Kanji	大月 薰
Kana	おおつき かおる
Transcriptions Romanization Ōtsuki Kaoru

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.

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. 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. 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; 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 the Shizuoka Bank president Shingorō Miwa (三輪 新五郎), and later to Motomune Sanekata (實方 元心), the Buddhist abbot of the Tokoji Temple in Ashikaga, Tochigi. She had a son with the latter, Motonobu Sanekata (实方 元信).

Kaoru was reunited with her daughter Fumiko in 1955, after the latter visited the Tokoji Temple upon learning of her true parentage.

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

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