Niijima Yae, also known as Yamamoto Yaeko , was a Japanese educator, nurse, and scholar during the Bakumatsu and Meiji era. Her samurai family belonged to the Hoshina clan, loyal to the Tokugawa Shogunate.
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Niijama Yae with a katana, rifle and waka poem
Yamamoto Yaeko and Joseph Hardy Neesima, 1876
Niijima Yae (right) in her later years with Evangeline Booth, General of the Salvation Army (left), circa November 1929
Niijima Yae on March 3, 1932, 3 months before her death
Niijima Yae's tomb stone at Doshisha Cemetery
Yamamoto Kakuma and Niijima Yae's former residence monumentIn their orbit 2
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Niijima Yae, also known as Yamamoto Yaeko , was a Japanese educator, nurse, and scholar during the Bakumatsu and Meiji era. Her samurai family belonged to the Hoshina clan, loyal to the Tokugawa Shogunate. Skilled in gunnery, she helped defend the Aizu Domain during the Boshin War, earning her the nicknames “Nightingale of Japan” and “Bakumatsu Joan of Arc”.
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Lived 1845 to 1932 · aged 86
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