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Sakamoto Otome (坂本 乙女, Sakamoto Otome, 2 Feburary 1832 – 31 August 1879) was a A woman from the late Edo period (Bakumatsu) to themeiji period . Third daughter of Tosa Clan local samurai Sakamoto Yahei and Sachi. She has a younger brother, Ryoma Sakamoto, and her strong sister-brother bond with Ryoma Sakamoto is very famous.

Her original name was Tome, and “Otome” is a 当て字 to “O-ru” (but the 旧仮名 is different). Otome” is sometimes read as ‘Tome’. A woman from the late Edo period (Bakumatsu) to the Meiji period. Third daughter of Tosa Clan local samurai Sakamoto Yahei and Sachi. She has a younger brother, Ryoma Sakamoto, and her sister-brother bond with Ryoma Sakamoto is very famous.

Life and career

She was skilled in naginata, perhaps like her father, and was also skilled in martial arts such as swordsmanship, horsemanship, archery, and swimming, as well as in literary arts such as koto, shamisen, dance, chants, sutra writing, and waka. She was a very large woman, even for her day and age, standing 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighing 30 kan (about 112 kg).

[When her mother Sachi died in Koka 3 (1846), she took Ryoma's place as his mother and taught him calligraphy, Japanese poetry, and swordsmanship, and even cured him of nocturia that he was suffering from at the time. Otome was quite manly for her time, and because of her size, she was always superior to Ryoma, and when Ryoma cried in frustration at losing, she would laugh and say, “Still a man! She never lost in leg wrestling, Ryoma's favorite sport, and she used her strong legs to defeat him.Women did not wear underwear at that time, so even if the bottom half of her body was exposed in heated competition, the maiden would not quit until Ryoma lost, and she would beat him until his other brothers and father stopped her. At that time, a short, fair-skinned, slightly chubby woman was considered beautiful, and her family and relatives, except for Ryoma, were worried that Otome, who was the exact opposite, would have no future employers.

The family and relatives, except for Ryoma, worried that there would be no one to take her in the future. In Ansei3 (1856), she married a doctor, Okagami Juan, and had a son and a daughter (Shutaro and Kikuei), but due to differences in family culture and her husband's violence and infidelity, they divorced in Keio3 (1867) and returned to their family. She was said to have been a good friend to Ryoma, offering advice and encouragement. Ryoma loved to write letters, which were quite expensive at the time, to all kinds of people, but the most frequent letters were to maidens. The content of his letters was trivial, and he wrote to maidens to boast about his fine studies and even to counsel them on the women he liked and whom to marry. she did not get along with Ryoma's wife, Oryu, and was opposed to their marriage. It is said that “After Ryoma's assassination, Oryo moved in with the Sakamoto family, but soon left the family and wandered around Japan.” However, recent historical documents state that “the maiden was kind to Oryo. It was revealed that “the maiden was friendly to Oryu”<ref>Toyo Shimbun, 1899. (See Oryu for more information).

In her later years, she changed her name to Doku meaning "alone" and lived with her adopted son Naohiro Sakamoto (later engaged in the development of Hokkaido Kitami City). In 1879 (12th year of Meiji), she contracted scurvy and died. she was 48 years old. It is said that she did not eat vegetables for fear of contracting cholera, which was a deadly disease at the time.Her grave is in the Sakamoto family cemetery in Yamate-cho, Kochi City.

Filmography

Nobel

• Ryōtarō Shiba『Ryoma ga Yuku』
• 葉室麟『乙女がゆく』（『暁天の星』の特別収録短編、上方の京都にいる龍馬そっくりの男装で弟を訪問するストーリー。）

Manga

• Original writer：Tetsuya Takeda、Manga：Yū Koyama『Oi! Ryoma』
• Original writer：Ryōtarō Shiba、Manga：Yū Suzunoki『Ryoma ga Yuku』

=== Television ===

• 『Ryoma ga Yuku』（1968年 NHK Taiga drama 演：水谷良重）
• 『Ryoma Sakamoto (テレビドラマ)』（1989年 演：Rino Katase）
• 『Ryoma ga Yuku』 (2004年、TV Tokyo 新春ワイド時代劇　演 : 室井滋)
• 『Ryōmaden』（2010年、NHK Taiga drama　演 : Shinobu Terajima（少女時代：Tao Tsuchiya））
• 『土方のスマホ 正月の陣』 (2022年1月2日、NHK　演 : 大島美幸)

Animation

• 『Oi! Ryoma』（声：Yuko Kobayashi）
• 『ねこねこ日本史』（声：三谷翔子）