Narasaki Ryō
Narasaki Ryō | |||||
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楢崎 龍 | |||||
Narasaki Ryō in her later years | |||||
| Born | July 23, 1841 Kyoto, Japan | ||||
| Died | January 15, 1906 (aged 64) | ||||
| Resting place | Shigaraki-ji, Ōtsu, Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan | ||||
| Nationality | Japanese | ||||
| Other names | Oryō (お龍) Nishimura Tsuru (西村 ツル) | ||||
| Known for | saved the life of her husband Sakamoto Ryōma and his bodyguard by running semi-naked through the inn to his room to warn them of the assassins' arrival during the Teradaya incident in 1866 | ||||
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| Kanji | 楢崎 龍 | ||||
| Hiragana | ならさき りょう | ||||
| Katakana | ナラサキ リョウ | ||||
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Narasaki Ryō (楢崎 龍; July 23, 1841 – January 15, 1906) was a Japanese woman and the wife of Sakamoto Ryōma, an architect of the Meiji Restoration. Commonly called Oryō (お龍) in Japan, she lived from the end of the Edo period (the end of the Tokugawa shogunate) to the Meiji period. After the death of her first husband, she married the merchant Nishimura Matsubē and was renamed Nishimura Tsuru (西村 ツル).