Yoarashi Okinu Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Yoarashi Okinu is the moniker of Kinu Harada who was a Japanese female poisoner and geisha and lived from the end of the Edo era to the beginning of the Meiji era. Her nickname Yoarashi means night-storm in Japanese. Her early life is generally undocumented and has produced many ideas and opinion. Some sources assert that she was a daughter of a samurai of Awa Province, or she was born in Edo. There is another opinion that she was a daughter of Sajiro, a fisherman who lived on the island of J'gashima at the tip of the Miura Peninsula. According to a non-fiction writer Atsushi Hachisu, she sold herself into geisha because her family was poor, and she worked as a geisha. There is another opinion that she was an employee at the decorative collar shop in the Nakamise neighborhood in front of Senso-ji. |
