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Her husband contracted a venereal disease from the pleasure quarters, and she divorced him.

Her husband at first agreed to let her bring up their daughter on her own, but later changed his mind and attempted to gain custody of the child.

In protest, she committed suicide, writing a letter to her husband before she did so, asking him to let her mother bring up the child, as she felt that she wasn't of proper mental capacity to do so.

Kaneko has been compared to Christina Rossetti.