[2] Her education began at home with her mother, and was supplemented by the lessons from local teachers of Chinese classics.

[2] She attended the Takebashi Girls' School, which had been opened by the government in 1872 for the purpose of training female teachers.

[4] Her behavior was different from that of a typical bride of that period because she held a job outside the home and engaged in translating legal documents.

[5] Kazuo Hatoyama was speaker of the House of Representatives of the Diet of Japan from 1896 to 1897 during the Meiji era.

[7] Her son was former Prime Minister Ichirō Hatoyama, who founded and was the first president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).

Hatoyama was one of the leaders of the strong Westernizing trend during the Meiji period, known as Bunmei Kaika (文明開化, lit.

[9] After helping found the Kyoritsu Women's University, she became head of the newly created home economics department.