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*''Birth: [[1807]]''
*''Death: [[1869]]''
Kusumoto Otaki, or Taki, also known as Sonogi, was a [[Nagasaki]] [[courtesan]] who had a lengthy live-in relationship with the German physician [[Philipp Franz von Siebold]]. Their daughter, [[Kusumoto Oine]], or Ine, is recognized as the first female doctor in Japan.
According to some scholars, Otaki is known to have been a [[prostitution|prostitute]] indentured to the Hikita-ya brothel in Nagasaki's [[Maruyama|Yoriai district]], while other sources suggest that she may have simply posed as a prostitute in order to gain access to [[Dejima]].<ref>Stanley, 93; Lionel Lambourne, ''Japonisme: Cultural Crossings Between Japan and the West'', London: Phaidon (2005), 20.</ref> Ordinary townswomen were forbidden from marrying foreigners, but a courtesan of one of the Maruyama or Yoriai brothels could be hired by a foreigner (such as Siebold) for an indefinite period of time. Taki lived with Siebold for six years, until he was deported and banished from Japan in [[1829]], on accusations of espionage, when he was found with maps of the country given him as gifts by Japanese scholars.
Following Siebold's deportation, Taki married a Japanese man, with whom she raised Oine.
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==References==
*Amy Stanley, ''Selling Women: Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan'', UC Press (2012), 93-94.
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*''Death: [[1869]]''
Kusumoto Otaki, or Taki, also known as Sonogi, was a [[Nagasaki]] [[courtesan]] who had a lengthy live-in relationship with the German physician [[Philipp Franz von Siebold]]. Their daughter, [[Kusumoto Oine]], or Ine, is recognized as the first female doctor in Japan.
According to some scholars, Otaki is known to have been a [[prostitution|prostitute]] indentured to the Hikita-ya brothel in Nagasaki's [[Maruyama|Yoriai district]], while other sources suggest that she may have simply posed as a prostitute in order to gain access to [[Dejima]].<ref>Stanley, 93; Lionel Lambourne, ''Japonisme: Cultural Crossings Between Japan and the West'', London: Phaidon (2005), 20.</ref> Ordinary townswomen were forbidden from marrying foreigners, but a courtesan of one of the Maruyama or Yoriai brothels could be hired by a foreigner (such as Siebold) for an indefinite period of time. Taki lived with Siebold for six years, until he was deported and banished from Japan in [[1829]], on accusations of espionage, when he was found with maps of the country given him as gifts by Japanese scholars.
Following Siebold's deportation, Taki married a Japanese man, with whom she raised Oine.
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==References==
*Amy Stanley, ''Selling Women: Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan'', UC Press (2012), 93-94.
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[[Category:Women]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]