One day in 1980, the weather in Nanjing was sunny, the majestic Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum was solemn and solemn, and the entire mausoleum area was full of tourists. Next to the mausoleum of the great sun yat-sen, an old Japanese woman of about seventy years old with a middle-aged man was kneeling on the ground, only to see the old woman crying bitterly, and the middle-aged man was silently weeping while persuading the old woman.
So who is this old Japanese woman? Who is the middle-aged man next to her? Why did they cry so sadly and sadly at Sun Yat-sen's tomb?
1. Love at first sight, eventually become a family member
To answer these questions, we must start with something more than a hundred years ago.
In 1895, Sun Yat-sen and the comrades of the Xingzhong Association secretly planned an uprising in Guangzhou, but due to the failure to leak secrets, Sun Yat-sen was wanted by the Qing court and forced to flee to Britain. In 1896, Sun Yat-sen went into exile in Japan, where he intended to continue to contact his colleagues and actively organize the anti-Qing struggle.
While in Japan, he lived in the Yamashita town apartment in Yokohama. At that time, Sun Yat-sen already had a wife, and his first wife was named Lu Muzhen, but Sun Yat-sen went to Japan in exile and did not bring his wife.
At that time, Sun Yat-sen lived on the first floor of the apartment, and it was very coincidental that a Japanese family also rented a house in this apartment, and their family lived on the second floor. The head of this Japanese family, named Ōtsuki Sudo, was originally a businessman with a good family condition and trade with China.
However, the Ōtsuki Sudo family lost a fire, and the family's savings over the years were reduced to ashes, and Ōtsuki Sudo had no choice but to rent a house to live in.
The Ōtsuki Sutang family was a neighbor of Sun Yat-sen, but in fact, there was no contact, and it was not a national person, so at first it could be said that they did not know each other.
Kaoru Ōtsuki
But by chance, Sun Yat-sen had an inseparable relationship with the family. One day, Otsuki Sudo's daughter Kaoru Ōzuki accidentally broke the vase at home, and the water in the vase suddenly flowed to the floor, and the floor at that time was not as leak-proof as it is now, and the water flowed downstairs at once, and it happened to be Sun Yat-sen who lived downstairs.
The water upstairs suddenly flowed to Sun Yat-sen's room, and Sun Yat-sen was about to let his secretary Wen Bingchen go upstairs to find out, Wen Bingchen had not yet gone upstairs, but there was a little girl downstairs, this little girl was Da Yue Kaoru, she was ordered by her father to go downstairs to apologize to Sun Yat-sen.
At that time, Ōtsuki Kaoru was only 13 years old, but she looked very handsome and very handsome, and after Sun Yat-sen saw it, he had a good feeling for this little girl.
Two years later, in 1901, Kaoru Ōtsuki grew to 15 years old, a little more mature than before, she looked better, Sun Yat-sen often saw Kaoru Ōtsuki from downstairs to the second floor of her house, whenever he saw this little girl, he could not help but get excited, he found himself in love with this Japanese girl. So Sun Yat-sen came to the home of Ōtsuki Sutang and proposed to Ōtsuki Kaoru.
At that time, Sun Yat-sen was 36 years old, 21 years older than Otsuki Kaoru, and Ōtsuki Sutang saw that their age gap was too large, so he rejected Sun Yat-sen.
However, Sun Yat-sen could not forget the Great Moon Kaoru, and a year later, Sun Yat-sen once again proposed to the Great Moon Kaoru and got the permission of the Great Moon Sutang. Thus the 37-year-old Sun Yat-sen married the 16-year-old Kaoru Ōtsuki, who moved to the first floor to live with Sun Yat-sen in 1902.
In order to overthrow the rule of the Qing Dynasty, Sun Yat-sen could not settle in Japan for a long time, and soon after living with Kaoru Ōtsuki, he went to Belgium, France and Germany to establish revolutionary groups among overseas students and actively cultivate revolutionary backbones. In 1905, Sun Yat-sen returned to Japan and, together with Huang Xing and others, founded the League on the basis of the Xingzhong Society and the Huaxing Society. This year Sun Yat-sen was able to meet with Kaoru Ōtsuki, and of course, during his trip to Europe, he also sent Ōtsuki Kaoru tuition on time, because Otsuki Kaoru was still in school at that time.
In 1906, Sun Yat-sen left Japan again, and shortly after his departure, Kaoru Ōtsuki gave birth to their daughter. Kaoru Ōtsuki named her daughter "Wenzi" because Sun Yat-sen's name was "Sun Wen". Later, it was renamed "Fumiko", and in Japanese, "Fumi" is pronounced the same as the word "Wen".
However, because the daughter was born after Sun Yat-sen left, Sun Yat-sen did not know about the birth of his daughter, and the communication conditions at that time were poor, and Otsuki Kaoru had no way to tell Sun Yat-sen about the birth of his daughter. But Sun Yat-sen should have known about his daughter's birth later.
Because in the next year or two, although Sun Yat-sen did not return to Yokohama, he kept in touch with Ōtsuki Kaoru through his secretary Wen Bingchen, so that he would definitely know about his daughter. Later, Sun Yat-sen returned to Japan, and he had planned to visit Kaoru Ōtsuki, but Ōtsuki kaoru was sick at the time, and the two were never able to see each other. Since then, not only have they never seen each other again, but they have also cut off their communication.
2. A husband and wife in a troubled world, one side of the other
Sun Yat-sen was busy with the revolution and could not take care of the mother and daughter of Kaoru Ōtsuki. In 1907, Sun Yat-sen went to Zhennanguan to organize an uprising, and in December, the Zhennanguan Uprising was held as scheduled, and Sun Yat-sen personally went to the front to participate in the battle. But the uprising was unsuccessful. Afterwards, Sun Yat-sen had to flee everywhere in order to avoid being arrested by the Qing court.
Later, Sun Yat-sen came to the United States. In 1911, the Xinhai Revolution broke out, and when the revolution was victorious, Sun Yat-sen was still in the United States. Sun Yat-sen returned to China in December and was elected provisional president of the Republic of China by the provinces. Sun Yat-sen, who was the president at that time, was busy with state affairs and had no time to take care of Kaoru Ōtsuki's mother and daughter.
As we all know, on February 13, 1912, Sun Yat-sen was forced to cede the position of president to Yuan Shikai. After his dismissal, Sun Yat-sen worked hard for the people's livelihood, and he focused his main energy on the establishment of industries, and he also vigorously advocated the implementation of equal land rights. In order to run the industry well, he became the national railway supervisor, hoping to do a good job in the industry by running the railway. To this end, Sun Yat-sen raised foreign capital everywhere and prepared to build several railway trunk lines in the country. However, the power of the state was in the hands of Yuan Shikai, and Sun Yat-sen's railway planning was eventually in vain.
In 1913, Song Jiaoren was killed, sun Yat-sen firmly believed that the mastermind behind it was Yuan Shikai, so he called for force to fight Yuan, which is the famous second revolution in history, but the second revolution ended in failure, and Sun Yat-sen was forced into exile in Japan.
During Sun Yat-sen's exile in Japan, Soong Ching Ling came to his side and became his secretary.
Sun Yat-sen and the Soong family can actually be said to be family friends, but Sun Yat-sen's initial contact object was not Soong Ching-ling, but Soong Ching-ling's father, Soong Yao-ru.
Song Yaoru was a devout Christian, and as early as 1894, he met Sun Yat-sen and became a like-minded comrade. Song Yaoru was also an early member of the League, and while he was preaching, he printed some revolutionary pamphlets through missionary work. Soong Ching Ling was still young, but Soong Ching Ling worshipped national heroes from an early age, and he had great admiration for Sun Yat-sen, and sometimes helped the revolutionary party print pamphlets to publicize the revolution.
Wedding photo of Soong Ching Ling and Sun Yat-sen in Japan
After the Second Revolution, Sun Yat-sen came to Tokyo, soong Ching-ling just graduated from Wesleyan College, Soong Ching-ling came to Tokyo and offered to help Sun Yat-sen work. Later, When Soong Ching Ling returned to Shanghai, when Soong Qingling proposed to his parents to go to Japan to help Sun Yat-sen work, he was firmly opposed by his parents. In order to stop Soong Ching-ling, her parents locked her in the room, and Soong Ching-ling, bent on following Sun Yat-sen, sneaked out of the window and ran away from home with the maid.
Soong Ching Ling came to Sun Yat-sen's side, when Soong Ching Ling was young and beautiful, elegant in temperament, and well educated, especially Soong Ching Ling had a feeling of great reverence for Sun Yat-sen, and the two soon fell in love.
Sun Yat-sen considered that Soong Ching-ling should not be by his side as a lover, which would affect the reputation of the revolutionary party, so in 1915, the two made the decision to marry. But they have a huge age gap, almost an age difference of nearly 30 years. The marriage between the two was firmly opposed by Song Yaoru, who came to Japan to try to prevent their marriage and threatenEd Song Qingling with severing the father-daughter relationship. But Soong Ching Ling was unmoved and resolutely stayed with Sun Yat-sen.
The combination of Sun Yat-sen and Soong Ching-ling made Sun Yat-sen and Da Yue Kaoru no longer have the opportunity to live together. Because Soong Ching Ling is Sun Yat-sen's true love, they are a pair of revolutionary lovers.
After Sun Yat-sen left Ōtsuki Kaoru, Ōtsuki Kaoru took his young daughter with him, had no job, had no source of livelihood, and lived an extremely difficult life. Sun Yat-sen also severed his relationship with Otsuki Kaoru, and even though he went to Japan many times in the future, he never contacted Otsuki Kaoru, let alone went to find Otsuki Kaoru.
How difficult Kaoru's life is, as can be seen from one detail, she even sold the wedding ring that Sun Yat-sen gave her. But how long a ring lasted, so Kaoru Otsuki had to remarry.
Although Kaoru Ōtsuki has a daughter, she is young and beautiful, gentle and virtuous, so it is still not difficult to marry. A bank president introduced Kaoru Otsuki to his younger brother Hideji Miwa. Although Kaoru Ōtsuki was married, she still had Sun Yat-sen in her heart, and although she sold the wedding ring that Sun Yat-sen gave her, it was forced by life. She has always treasured the letters that Sun Yat-sen gave her. However, Sun Yat-sen's letter was accidentally seen by Miwa Hideji, who could not stand it and divorced Kaoru Otsuki, who and his daughter Fumiko were trapped again.
Stills of Kaoru Ōtsuki
Forced to make a living, Kaoru Ōtsuki once again married, this time, to the abbot of Toko-ji Temple, Shikata Motoshin. In 1929, Kaoru Ōtsuki and Shikata Motoshin gave birth to their son, Shikata Motonobu.
3. Blood is thicker than water, and the ancestors are recognized
In the process of living with Shikata Motoshin, Kaoru Otsuki gave her 5-year-old daughter Tomiko to Miyagawa Magiki in Yokohama City as her adopted daughter. At that time, the information displayed on the household registration was that Tomiko's father was her grandfather Ōtsuki Sudo, and she became the fourth daughter of Ōtsuki Sudo, and the date of birth was December 12, 1907.
Tomiko is a descendant of a great man, she was very good in elementary school, and she was the class leader from the first grade until she graduated from elementary school. However, her adoptive father, Miyagawa Yoshiyoshi, was a businessman, and although the family conditions were very good, he was reluctant to spend money for Tomiko to continue her studies, so after Tomiko graduated from elementary school, he stopped letting her go to middle school.
After Dropping out of school, Tomiko helps her with some chores such as tailoring at her adoptive parents' house. When she reached adulthood, her adoptive parents found her a door-to-door son-in-law, the son of a farmer in Machida, Tokyo, named Yoshiji Osawa. After marriage, they had two sons, the eldest named Miyagawa Higashiichi and the second son Miyagawa Hiroshi.
Miyagawa Higashiichi
Fumiko, who only has a primary school education, suffers from lack of culture, so she attaches great importance to the education of her children. As soon as Kawato, the long womb, went to elementary school, and she strictly supervised. This child with the bloodline of a great man is also very outstanding in academic performance like his mother, from primary school to middle school.
During the college entrance examination, Miyagawa Higashiichi was admitted to hokkaido University with excellent results. After graduating from school, Miyagawa Higashi entered a food company called Koku branch. After several years of work experience, Miyagawa Toichi left the company to start his own business, founded a Tokyo marketing company, and wrote a book called "The Whereabouts of Wholesalers", which became a bestseller in the food field.
Fumiko's growth process is full of bitterness, she was given to her adoptive parents by her mother Kaoru Ōtsuki at the age of 5, and she still has a grudge against her mother. So for a long time, she didn't have contact with her mother. And the fact that she was the daughter of Sun Yat-sen is even more unknown. Of course, she did not know who her father was, and there was another historical reason, that is, Japan had invaded China for a long time, the two countries were hostile relations, and people who knew the inside story would not tell her the secret of her origins, so until she became an adult, Fumiko did not know that sun Yat-sen, a great man of the generation of the great country in the east, was actually her biological father.
As she grew older, some resentment gradually faded in Tomiko's heart, and although she could not completely give up her resentment towards her mother for abandoning herself, she still wanted to see her mother in her lifetime. In 1956, Tomiko came to Toko-ji Temple with the long womb Kawahitoichi. Finally, I met my mother, Kaoru Ōtsuki, who had been separated for decades, and the mother and daughter met and cried bitterly.
This time the mother and daughter met, Kaoru Otsuki and Shikata Yuanxin's son Shikata Yuanxin played an important role, it was he who threaded the needle from it, which contributed to the mother-daughter meeting. Moreover, Shikata Motonobu also recorded the content of Otsuki Kaoru's conversation, and afterwards also sorted out the records and sent the sorted article to Miyagawa Higashiichi.
Fumiko
It was also this meeting that Kaoru Ōtsuki told the secret that had been buried in her heart for half a century, and Kaoru Ōtsuki told Fumiko that your father was a great man of China's generation, Sun Yat-sen. Fumiko finally knew the secret of her origins, finally knew who her father was, and Miyagawa Dongichi finally knew her ancestors, and he was surprised that he still had Chinese blood, especially the blood of Chinese greats.
Although Fumi's mother and son knew of their origins, the news that Sun Yat-sen had a Japanese wife and daughter, as well as two Japanese grandsons, was a secret that no one in China knew. In particular, Sun Yat-sen originally had complicated family relations, and if a Japanese person suddenly appeared and said that he was Sun Yat-sen's daughter, I would like to ask, who can accept this fact?
Tomiko and her son Miyagawa Higashiichi have always wanted to recognize their ancestors, but Tomiko has fully considered the feelings of the Sun family. At the same time, the island of Taiwan at that time was revering Dr. Sun Yat-sen as a god, and the island of Taiwan, out of the consideration of protecting Sun Yat-sen's reputation, would not accept the fact that Sun Yat-sen had a Japanese wife and daughter.
Fumiko had to keep this secret in her heart. In the 1980s, Tomiko was over seventy years old, and if she did not tell the mystery of her life, this secret would be forever sealed in the long river of history.
Finally, Fumiko told the Yomiuri Shimbun reporter the secret that had been pressed in her heart for decades, and at the same time she also told the reason for her concealment of the matter: "My mother Kaoru Otsuki told me that I was the daughter of Sun Yat-sen, but I have always been concerned about the feelings of the Sun family, so I have not disclosed it to the media." ”
After this incident was reported, it naturally aroused strong repercussions in Japan and China. Chen Fupo, president of the Japan Sun Yat-sen Memorial Association, made a special examination of this matter, proving that Sun Yat-sen did have a marriage with Kaoru Otsuki, and also proved that they did have a daughter named Fumiko. Sun Yat-sen's relatives and friends also confirmed that Sun Yat-sen did marry a Japanese woman, Kaoru Ōtsuki.
On August 18, 1984, Fumiji Kubota, a Japanese expert on Sun Yat-sen, published articles in the Asahi Shimbun and Yomiuri Shimbun about Sun Yat-sen's Japanese wife Kaoru Ōtsuki and daughter Fumiko. At that time, Japan had a great response, but it was refuted by the island of Taiwan. Some even warned Kubota Bunji not to go to Taiwan Island, where people would kill him.
But the truth is the truth after all, and Fumiko and her son are bent on acknowledging their ancestors and returning to the ancestors. As early as 1977, Fumiko took her son to Taiwan Island and paid homage to the "Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall", although their mother and son did not disclose their identities, but for Fumiko, it was enough to suffer in front of her father's portrait, which was enough to be comforted.
In 1980, accompanied by the long womb Kawahito, to China, their mother and son came to the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in Nanjing, kneeling in front of Sun Yat-sen's mausoleum and weeping bitterly. Fumiko finally came to her father's grave in her lifetime, comforting her father's spirit in heaven, and she finally gave an account to her mother, herself, and her two sons.
Kaoru Otsuki died as early as 1970. Tomiko also died of liver cancer in 1990. But Tomiko fulfilled her wish in her lifetime, and she was finally able to close her eyes.
In 2008, Based on the memories of his grandmother Kaoru Ōtsuki and the materials compiled by Motonobu Shikata, Miyagawa Wōichi wrote a book called "The Daughter and Grandson of Sun Wen Who Remained in Japan", detailing the life and growth story of Sun Yat-sen's Japanese daughter Fumiko and her grandsons Miyagawa Higashiichi and Miyagawa Hiroshi, which became a best-seller for a while, and Miyagawa Higashiichi also became a best-selling author.
Today, Miyagawa Ishiichi is 93 years old, he is proud to be a descendant of the great Sun Yat-sen, he is willing to do anything related to Sun Yat-sen, he actively participates in commemorative activities related to Sun Yat-sen, and he also participates in the production of a film related to Sun Yat-sen.