[3] In September 1899, at the age of seventeen, Kanno married Komiya Fukutarō, a member of a Tokyo merchant family.

Earlier in 1903, Kanno attended a lecture where Shimada Saburo argued for the closing of the Osaka red light district.

Kanno also began contributing to the Michi no Tomo (Tenrikyō) and Kirisutokyō Sekai (Protestant), both religious newspapers.

She was a reader of the Heimin Shinbun (Commoners' News), an anti-war magazine headed by Sakai and Kotoku,[8] though she never submitted a contribution to it herself.

The disease made her more irritable, eventually straining her relationship with Arahata to the point of separation, although their friends still saw them as a couple.

Kanno stopped publishing for almost a year after the autumn of 1908, due to her newfound domestic duties and illness, as she had to recuperate for several weeks in February 1909.

Miyashita was a factory worker who was convinced by Morochika Umpei, a member of the Heiminsha, that the emperor was not actually divine.

Miyashita also read the work of Uchiyama Gudō, who argued that tenant farmers were impoverished due to exploitation by the elites, namely by the emperor and landowners.

Uchiyama also elaborated on the "actual" origins of the emperor, who was not divine, but instead a common bandit who lacked real domestic power and was a frequent victim of foreign enemies.

[18] Kanno was enthused about the scheme, hoping to emulate Sophia Perovskaya, a participant in the assassination of Tsar Alexander II.

The government rounded up anybody who had connections with Kotoku, with a total of twenty-six individuals put on trial, Kanno being the only woman present.

The newspaper Miyako Shimbun detailed Kanno's execution:"She mounted the scaffold escorted by guards on both sides.

If I hurled a bomb at you, I imagine your life blood would gush with just about as much vigorous as you had when delivering that [court-room] address, wouldn't it?

Also when I was told after my collapse in October when I was feverish and unconscious that I'd raved in my delirium about Prosecutor Taketomi – that I bore that deep a grudge against someone – it was enough to make me laugh.

But just as a great building cannot be destroyed in a moment, the existing hierarchical class system, which has been consolidated over many years, cannot be overthrown in a day and a night ...

So we [women] must first of all achieve the fundamanetal principle of 'self-awareness', and develop our potential, uplift our character, and then gradually work toward the realization of our ideal".

[27] During her imprisonment for the Red Flag incident, Kanno changed her views regarding a peaceful socialist revolution.

Kanno lambasted the official sanctioning of prostitution, disgusted that the Japanese government would allow the sexual exploitation of the daughters of the poor.

She was a firm believer in gender equality, arguing in a Muro Shinpō piece:"In these postwar years there are many tasks facing the nation in politics, economy, industry, education, and so on.

There are women who take pride in their apparel, who are content to eat good food, and who regard going to the theater as the highest form of pleasure.

But women with some education and some degree of social knowledge must surely be discontented and angry about their status ..."[30]In addition, she chastised men for constantly harping on the importance of female chastity.

This is a reference to ryōsai kenbo, or "good wife, wise mother," the patriarchal ideal for womanhood in Japan.

at their wits' end, than for wives who give good counsel....Many men dislike women with their own opinions.

They hide behind their masks, looking grave, putting on airs and affecting dignity; and the more they talk self-importantly, feign cleverness, and take themselves too seriously, the more women are able to see through their downright stupidity.

She had joined Christians and socialists in opposing the Russo-Japanese war, publishing the short story Zekko (Severed Relations) in October 1903.

She believed that if women wanted to contribute, they would have to actively join the war effort, acting as nurses and workers.

She also linked her pseudo-nationalistic arguments with her belief in women's rights, mainly that of self-sacrifice, in urging men to stop visiting prostitutes and instead contribute money to the war effort.

[34] Kanno is often depicted as a promiscuous temptress, an "enchantress" whose sexual affairs spanned the socialist sphere, who used sex to advance her journalistic career, and who "allowed herself to sink into a life of prostitution.

"[35] This depiction can be traced directly to her ex-husband Arahata Kanson's autobiography, where he details a seduction by Kanno and a lurid string of her supposed past affairs, the latter of which seem logistically unlikely.

[39] Her life inspired the play Kaiki Shoku (Eclipse), produced by the theater company Aono Jikken Ensemble and written by William Satake Blauvelt.