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Born in 1905, later became a geisha / waitress / prostitute, had many affairs and reportedly required multiple rounds of sex per night leaving her lovers exhausted.
Eventually she met a man who satisfied her, and they fell madly in love, and they did a lot of kinky choking stuff, leading to her intentionally choking him to death, so that no other woman could have him. Then she cut off his penis and balls to take with her, fleeing into hiding for awhile. She wanted something to keep him close in her memory and those were the parts that she was most fond of and was able to carry easily.
She was caught, tried, and convicted of murder and desecration of a corpse. After 5 years she was released from prison.
That's not even all of the story, there are more crazy details in the Wikipedia link.

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[–] Nastybutler@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago (2 children)

This is a wild two sentences worth of information, and aren't even the craziest part of this story:

After her arrest, Ishida's penis and testicles were moved to Tokyo University Medical School's pathology museum. They were put on public display soon after the end of World War II, but have since disappeared.

[–] Gloomy@mander.xyz 7 points 4 days ago

Maybe together with:

The judge presiding over the trial admitted to being sexually aroused by some of the details involved in the case yet made sure that the trial was held with the utmost seriousness.

[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

😮

I must have missed that part in the article

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago

A real world Yandere.

[–] BossDj@piefed.social 12 points 4 days ago

Everyone's happy smiles in the arrest picture

[–] Jumi@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

She got raped and then sold to a geisha house

[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

As was the style at the time apparently. It's a fucked up story all around

[–] KuroiKaze@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

Would recommend the movie as an interesting piece of cinema https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Realm_of_the_Senses

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

was a Japanese geisha and prostitute who murdered her lover, Kichizō Ishida

lover is a wild choice of word there

[–] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world -5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I could never hate a geisha for letting the rage out every now and then. Let women be angry I guess.

[–] Gloomy@mander.xyz 20 points 4 days ago

Oh, no no. She said she killed him because she loved him so much and coudn't bare the thought that other women would ever have him.

She also used his cut of chunk as a sex toy two days after the incident.

Read the wiki. It's worth the read imho.