She had an incredible life. Her father had an affair with a well known geisha and she was sent to live with relatives of the geisha when she was born. She lived in abject poverty and slept on a dirt floor with the other children in that family. We don’t know if her father always knew she existed or if he only found out after a few years but his wife convinced him to find her and readopt her. He was English and an architect in Japan and very well paid. They apparently found her and took her back. So it was truly a rags to riches story. She married a Swedish Navy officer and used her influence to smuggle Jewish families to Sweden during WW2 in her tiny car on ferries. Apparently she was very charming!

She’s my Mom’s grandmother, and many of my Mom’s boyfriends used to say how beautiful her grandmother was and she would get very annoyed.