1970, ISBN: 9781156259405

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sada Abe Abe Sada, 28 May 1905 after 1970) is remembered in Japan for erotically asphyxiating her lover, Kichizo Ishida Ishida Kichiz), on May 18, 1936, and then cutting off his penis and testicles and carrying them around with her in her handbag. The story became a national sensation in Japan, acquiring Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sada Abe Abe Sada, 28 May 1905 after 1970) is remembered in Japan for erotically asphyxiating her lover, Kichizo Ishida Ishida Kichiz), on May 18, 1936, and then cutting off his penis and testicles and carrying them around with her in her handbag. The story became a national sensation in Japan, acquiring mythic overtones, and has since been interpreted by artists, philosophers, novelists and filmmakers. Sada Abe was the seventh of eight children of Shigeyoshi and Katsu Abe, an upper middle-class family of tatami mat makers in Tokyo's Kanda neighborhood. Only four of the Abe children survived to adulthood, and of those, Sada was the youngest. Abe's father, Shigeyoshi Abe, was originally from Chiba Prefecture. He had been adopted into the Abe family to help with the business, which he eventually inherited. Age 52 at the time of Sada's birth, Shigeyoshi Abe was described by police as "an honest and upright man" who had no conspicuous vices. Though some acquaintances reported her to be somewhat self-centered, with a taste for extravagance, Sada's mother, Katsu Abe, likewise had no known legal or moral blemishes on her record. Sada's siblings and father did behave questionably though. Her brother Shintaro was known as a womanizer, and after his marriage ran away with his parents' money. Sada's sister Teruko was also known to have had several lovers. Her father sent her to work in a brothel, then not an uncommon way to punish female sexual promiscuity in Japan, though he soon bought her back. Teruko's past was not considered a hindrance to marriage for those of the Abe's class at the time, and she soon married. Sada Abe was born in 1905 and, as the youngest child, her mother doted on her and let her do as she wished. Abe's mother encouraged her to. More: Books, , Japanese-Female-Murderers~~Books-LLC, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<