Yoarashi Okinu (夜嵐 おきぬ, c. 1845[1] – March 28, 1872) is the moniker of Harada Kinu (原田 きぬ), who was a Japanese female poisoner and geisha and lived from the end of the Edo era to the beginning of the Meiji era.
There is another opinion that she was a daughter of Sajiro, a fisherman who lived on the island of Jōgashima at the tip of the Miura Peninsula.
[1] There is another opinion that she was an employee at the decorative collar shop in the Nakamise neighborhood in front of Sensō-ji.
[1] He was the daimyō of the Karasuyama Domain in Shimotsuke Province, which was rated at thirty thousand koku.
Her case was reported sensationally several years after that, but many researchers such as a Japanese art historian Naoyuki Kinoshita agree that mass media adapted her and there were untruths in her tradition.