From Runaway Kumamoto Bride To Aussie Clan Matriarch
From a coal bunker in Nagasaki to a multicultural family in Broome, the extraordinary journey of Yae Yamamoto. A daring escape from Japan In 1896, a young woman from a remote island village in the Amakusa archipelago in Japan’s Kumamoto Prefecture made a remarkable escape. Unwilling to marry a man chosen by her family, Yae Yamamoto ran away from home, eventually reaching Nagasaki. Her escape route was extraordinary: she hid in the coal bunker of a ship leaving Japan and arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia. She was one of many women seeking to escape the poverty of rural Japan. 1896年、熊本県の人里離れた村に暮らす若い女性が、驚くべき行動に出た。家族が決めた男性との結婚を望まなかった山本ヤエは故郷から逃げ出し、長崎までたどり着いた。そして、日本を離れる船の石炭庫に身を隠し、西オーストラリア州のフリーマントルに到着した。ヤエは、当時の日本の農村の貧困から抜け出そうとした女性の一人だった。 Yae came from Ichoda-mura, a village on Shimoshima Island in…