[3] Her mother was one of his concubines, Ryō, a daughter of a fallen samurai family who was a geisha in Yanagibashi.

In 1900, she was married to the eldest son of the Kitakōji family, Suketake,[1][2] at the age of 15, after which she dropped out of school due to her pregnancy.

There she met Hanako Muraoka, a girl eight years younger than her, who became her "confidante" and who she called "Hana-chan".

At the time, adultery was a crime under the criminal law, punishable by up to two years of imprisonment.

Yanagi announced her Dear John letter to the Itō family on the Osaka Asahi Shimbun, and two days later, a protest statement by Denemon was published on the Osaka Mainichi Shimbun, making it a sensational incident.

When Ryūsuke fell ill from tuberculosis, Yanagiwara supported her new family by writing.

[3][2] Although she lost her eyesight due to glaucoma, she spent a peaceful life of writing poems until her death.