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Following the [[Meiji Restoration]], she worked to promote girls' education, and various forms of social work. She established the Fukushima Relief Facility which provided for orphans and the poor, as well as the Saisei Hospital in Kitakata and a midwifery research institute.

Following the [[Meiji Restoration]], she worked to promote girls' education, and various forms of social work. She established the Fukushima Relief Facility which provided for orphans and the poor, as well as the Saisei Hospital in Kitakata and a midwifery research institute.

Following her death in [[1897]], a bronze statue of Uryû was erected in [[1901]] at [[Senso-ji|Sensô-ji]] in [[Tokyo|Tokyo's]] [[Asakusa]] neighborhood.

Following her death in [[1897]], a bronze statue of Uryû was erected in [[1901]] at [[Senso-ji|Sensô-ji]] in [[Tokyo|Tokyo's]] [[Asakusa]] neighborhood. This was the first bronze statue of a woman erected in the country.<ref>Takashi Fujitani, ''Splendid Monarchy'', University of California Press (1996), 268n36.</ref>

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==References==

==References==

*Plaques at Sensô-ji, Asakusa, Tokyo.

*Plaques at Sensô-ji, Asakusa, Tokyo.

[[Category:Meiji Period]]

[[Category:Meiji Period]]

[[Category:Women]]

[[Category:Women]]