As wife of a Japanese ambassador based in Washington and London, she was well known as a political hostess in the West in the 1920s and 1930s.

[2] She lived in Washington, D.C. as a political hostess,[3][4] and traveled with her daughters from 1925 to 1928, while her husband was the Japanese Ambassador to the United States.

[9][10] The family lived in London in 1909 (when daughter Setsuko was born)[11] and from 1929 to 1935,[12] when her husband was the Japanese Ambassador to the Court of St.

[13][14] She welcomed and promoted an international touring display of Japanese ceremonial dolls.

[4] She assisted American writer Elizabeth Gray Vining, who described her as "grey-haired, serene, humorous, and wise.