[1] Tsuneko Gauntlett taught at the Kyōai Girls' School in Maebashi as a young woman.

[2] She was vice-chair of the Japanese delegation to the first Pan-Pacific Women's Congress in Hawaii in 1928, and spoke on work against human trafficking.

[15] Yamada Tsune married British educator George Edward Luckman Gauntlett in 1898.

The Gauntletts had six children together; two of their daughters (Frances and Kathleen) remained British citizens and lived in Canada and England during World War II; two of their children (Winifred and Owen) married Japanese people and lived in Japan during the war; their daughter Amy lived in Japan with her South African husband, and their youngest son Trevor became a Japanese citizen in 1941.

"Mrs. Gauntlett devoted most of her life to the betterment of Japanese women's status," summarized one American newspaper obituary.