When it comes to female spies, whether in movies or novels, they are always portrayed as very delicate and sexy. For example, the female spies under Dai Kasa, the head of the military command, were all beautiful as flowers.
However, judging from many photos of female secret agent Yoshiko Kawashima, although her facial features are not ugly, a mouth of teeth that is revealed when she smiles is really not flattering.
Coupled with the fact that she is always dressed as a man, looks like a "tomboy", and does not have a feminine and gentle temperament, this really subverts everyone's perception of female spies.
(Yoshiko Kawashima)
So, how did Yoshiko Kawashima, who has no gender advantage, become an "Oriental Female Demon"?
Yoshiko Kawashima is not Japanese, and her original name was Aisin Kyora Henzo.
She was born into the Manchu Qing dynasty and was the eleventh granddaughter of Emperor Taiji's eldest son Hauge, and her father, Ai Xinjue Luo Shanqi, was an aristocratic courtier of the late Qing Dynasty.
It is said that she is also a qualification, but it is precisely because of this noble status that her life has undergone subversive changes.
When Xianwei was 6 years old, the Xinhai Revolution broke out, and the shattered Qing Dynasty had to conform to the changes of the times, promulgating an abdication edict and announcing its withdrawal from the stage of history.
The Manchu Qing dynasty died, but the Manchu Qing elders such as Zenki were not willing to surrender the power, so Zenqi, at the instigation of the Japanese ronin Kawashima Nanasu, threw himself into the Camp of the Japanese. It tried to use the power of the Japanese to restore the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
In order to realize the dream of restoration, Zenki and Kawashima Nanasu began to worship as brothers, and gave the young Xianwei to Kawashima Nanasu as an adopted daughter, and renamed Kawashima Yoshiko.
For this cute little girl, Kawashima Nanasu, who is a ronin, has no love for her. After returning to Japan with him, Yoshiko Kawashima on the one hand had to receive a strict education in militarist ideology in school, and on the other hand, in order to train Yoshiko Kawashima as a ruthless female spy, he constantly trained her from the military, political, and intelligence aspects.
After several years of rigorous education, Yoshiko Kawashima has become fully Japanese. Even she regards Japan as her hometown.
At this time, Yoshiko Kawashima had her hair curled high, was wearing a kimono embroidered with cherry blossoms, and like all Japanese women, smiled shyly and cutely. The beauty of the girl is fully revealed in her.
(Yoshiko Kawashima as a teenager)
At that time, ShanQi had died of illness, and the master was the eldest son, Xianli.
The 59-year-old Kawashima Nanasu wrote a letter to Kenri, saying that he is a benevolent person, and he is a brave person, and if the two are combined, the children born will be both benevolent and courageous. He meant taking 18-year-old Yoshiko Kawashima as a concubine.
Naturally, this ridiculous request did not wait for the following, but Kawashima Did not intend to wait for the answer, so he raped his adopted daughter Yoshiko Kawashima.
Yoshiko Kawashima, who was seriously injured, not only did not get the comfort of her brother, but her brother also advised her that in order to restore the great cause, she must be patient in every way.
Desperate, Yoshiko Kawashima listened to her brother's persuasion and comfort. In order to say goodbye to the past, she cut off the long green silk. Since then, she has been dressed as a woman and a man, and her personality has changed greatly.
At this time, Puyi, the Sun Emperor who had been living in the Forbidden City, also changed.
The warlord Feng Yuxiang staged a coup d'état in Beijing, which not only overthrew the Beijing government controlled by the warlords directly under his direct lineage, but also drove Puyi out of the Forbidden City.
As for the abdication of the Qing Dynasty, the "Royal Preferential Conditions" signed with the National Government and Puyi's honorific title were all written off.
Feng Yuxiang's approach made the Manchu Qing widows and young people led by Puyi panic, and the desire to restore the Qing Dynasty became stronger and stronger.
The Japanese, bent on splitting China, are keenly aware that the opportunity cannot be missed.
In 1927, Yoshiko Kawashima, who could no longer live with Kawashima Langsu, returned to her homeland alone and married the little prince of Mongolia in order to realize the legacy of the Qing Dynasty.
(Yoshiko Kawashima and adoptive father Kawashima Nanasu)
However, judging from Yoshiko Kawashima's well-behaved personality, marriage to her is completely torture. So three years later, she ran away from home.
At this time, Yoshiko Kawashima could not return home and had no place to go, and under the influence of militaristic ideas, she decided to defect to the Japanese Kwantung Army.
In the Japanese barracks, Yoshiko Kawashima met Takayoshi Tanaka, the attached military attaché of the legation in Shanghai.
Tanaka Takayoshi can be called "China Pass", that is, "China Pass". Although his official position is not high, he is very good at making friends, which has allowed him to receive a lot of care in his military career.
Moreover, although Tanaka Takayoshi was a military attaché, he never participated in combat, but instead had been in the intelligence industry for a long time and was an intelligence veteran.
Yoshiko Kawashima was originally Tanaka Takayoshi's girlfriend. However, Tanaka Takayoshi is sensitive to the fact that Kawashima Yoshiko's royal status allows her to perform various intelligence tasks that Japanese spies cannot.
As a result, Tanaka Takayoshi spoke cleverly to Yoshiko Kawashima, and at the same time had a plan to train her to be a female spy step by step.
Where does Yoshiko Kawashima need to be taught, in Kawashima Nanasuna, she has long grown into a good spy, but there is no stage.
(Naka is Takayoshi Tanaka)
The appearance of Takayoshi Tanaka gave her the opportunity to show.
Yoshiko Kawashima took advantage of her unique royal status to provide a lot of intelligence for the Kwantung Army to invade China, and at the same time, she also created some friction conducive to the invasion of the Kwantung Army, such as in the "September 18" incident, she did a lot of espionage organization work in the early stage.
In addition, Kawashima Yoshiko also stole a large amount of information on the garrison and weapons and equipment of Zhang Zuolin's feng army, and collected information such as Zhang Zuolin's itinerary, which caused the Huanggutun Incident to occur and successfully killed Zhang Zuolin.
In order to allow the Japanese to calmly establish a puppet state of Manchukuo, Kawashima Yoshiko went to Shanghai and planned the "Japanese Monk Incident" and triggered the Songhu War. At the same time, Wanrong, who remained in Tianjin, was skillfully escorted to Xinjing.
Yoshiko Kawashima's series of operations were highly appreciated by Kenji Doihara, the head of the Japanese spy secret service, and she also received the title of "Oriental Witch".
Yoshiko Kawashima's traitorous behavior eventually put the infamous her on a path of no return.
In October 1947, Yoshiko Kawashima, who was imprisoned in Peiping No. 1 Prison, was eventually sentenced to death on charges of "treason, espionage, and traitor," and executed by firing squad the following year.
(Reference historical materials: "Kawashima Yoshiko Biography", etc.)