Born into the Yamamoto family, gunnery instructors of the Aizu domain; she learned gunnery from her brother Kakuma.
In the Aizu War she dressed as a man, took up a rifle and fought from inside the castle.
She moved to Kyoto to join her brother Kakuma and taught at a school for women.
She married Niijima Jō and was baptized a Christian, supporting Dōshisha alongside her husband.
Her husband Jō died.
During the Sino-Japanese War she nursed wounded soldiers at a Hiroshima hospital as a Japanese Red Cross volunteer.
She also served as a nurse in the Russo-Japanese War.
Devoted to the tea ceremony in her later years, she died in Kyoto.
Inoue MasaruSaigō TsugumichiMutsu MunemitsuInoue KowashiNakae ChōminMori ArinoriTōgō HeihachirōKatsura Tarō
People of the Meiji period ・ People by period
Based on facts found in textbooks and biographies. Uncertain points are marked as such.