Mrs. Ohsugi, better known as Noe-ku Ito (she did not really marry Ohsugi in the narrow, conventional sense of the word "marry'') hailed from an upper class family. At the age of 16 she manifested an independence of spirit that, astonished her family when she refused to marry the man her parents han chosen for her. Later on she did marry, but left her husband to join Ohsugi as his life companion and devote her life to the cause for which ber lover laboured. She, too, was a
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