Garden Abe — the strange woman-killer in history

On the Internet you can find many creepy stories about serial killers, violent maniacs and rapists. And every time I read similar question: "What was happening in the minds of these people?".

Biography of Japanese Gardens Abe causes as much confusion, particularly because the woman wore in her purse cut off lover's penis and testicles. What else you need to know about the most unusual courtesan in history, read our article.

Garden Abe was born in 1905 in the average Japanese family and was one of eight children Cheese and Katsu Abe. Together, they lived in the Tokyo suburb of Kandy, where he engaged in the production of the Mat.

The garden was the youngest daughter, which was my mother in a special account. She indulged her in almost everything the girl did not know what the prohibitions and penalties. It is with the permission of the mother at a very young age of the Garden began to take lessons of singing and playing the shamisen at the time these classes are traditionally associated with geishas and prostitutes.

The image of the geisha has always attracted a future murderer. She often ran away from school to go to school for music, and on the way even attacked appropriate makeup.

When the family was going through difficult moments, the girl was sent out of the house. Once one of these days the Garden was raped by her friend in the house of their mutual friends. Then she had just turned 15 years old.

Over time, the Garden became a difficult teenager — she does not listen to parents and did so, as she wants to skip class, led a promiscuous, communicated with the bad guys. In 1922, finally desperate attempts to send her daughter on the right path, the mother and the girl's father gave her to a geisha school of Yokohama, hoping that at least she will be able to find their place in society.

But in the first days of learning Gardens understand the lives of these women is not as simple as it seemed. To be a star among geisha, it was a lot of work to Wake up early in the morning to go to dance lessons, music, ikebana, to learn other arts, to have the skills of communication with customers, to be able to get people interested. Most geisha studied since early childhood, so the Gardens had no chance. Instead, she became matigas, that is quasiphase, which was doing just that satisfy sexual needs of men.

She worked for five years until ill with syphilis. Realizing that now it will regularly check and inspect the Garden decided to leave this place and find a better paying job. So the Japanese have turned into a professional hooker.

First home Gardens became a brothel in the heart of the tobita Osaka. But long to stay here the girl had soon earned it a reputation as a "problem" prostitutes, as it was constantly trying to cheat customers, they stole the money, and several times he escaped. Two years later, she still managed to leave the walls of the brothel and work as a waitress in a cafe. Of course, the new salary was not satisfied with the Garden and she was forced to go to Osaka, where he began to work as a prostitute.

Through the year he died, the girl's mother, and she went to Tokyo to visit her grave and pay my respects to father. To earn, Garden and joined a local market prostitutes and first became a paid mistress. After a year of serious illness befalls the father and Gardens. Ten days later, she carefully cared for a parent, but he died suddenly.

Then the Japanese continued to work in a local brothel, where he met with Kinnosuke Kasahara. The man was very fond of the Garden, so he bought her a house and began to provide money, but the girl eventually wanted more. She asked Kasahara to abandon his family and to take her to wife.

To get away from his wife Kasahara did not, and in the end, the relationship between him and Sadoy stopped. She moved to Nagoya, where for some time she worked as a waitress in a restaurant. In it, a future criminal, met Goro Omiya — a Professor and banker who was planning to become a member of the Japanese Parliament. They started an affair, and Omiya even offered the girl to occupy its own niche in the restaurant business. He paid for her treatment of syphilis in Kusatsu, where it remained during the period from November 1935 to January 1936.

Later, Abe said that to any other man have not experienced such feelings:

Stills from the film "Empire of the senses", filmed on the biography Gardens Abe

But ISIS was married, and soon they with Abe had to leave. This gap was fatal for girls. After it she began to drink heavily, fell into a deep depression and claimed that only ISIS has known true love.

Once Abe visited the view where you saw how the geisha is threatening the man with a knife, and decided to repeat this trick in real life. During the next meeting with ISIS, she grabbed a kitchen knife and held it to the throat of her lover.

Stills from the film "Empire of the senses"

What is happening is very surprised the man, but at the same time he liked it. In the future, he repeatedly asked Abe to put to him a knife and strangle him as it gave him sexual excitement. The girl allowed ISIS to do the same with you.

Once again, Abe took his belt to strangle ISIS during orgasm, both of them is very excited. But when she removed the bandage from his neck, the man felt a strong pain. It took about 30 tablets of a sedative to relieve the symptoms. From so many "Bromizoval" ISIS started to fall asleep. He then asked Abe to choke him in his sleep and "don't stop, because then very painful."

Abe took it as a joke, but that night — may 18, 1936 — she strangled ISIS. The killer spent several hours near the body of her lover then cut off his penis and testicles, and quickly disappeared from the scene.

It should be noted that Abe also scratched his name on the hand of ISIS, the blood is written on the sheets of the "Garden, and kitty together" and before you leave the hotel, put on his underwear. Genitals killed it wrapped in newspaper and put it in the handbag. When the police later asked why she did it, Abe said:

For some time, the police couldn't find the Garden Abe, but on 19 may 1936, they still managed to get out on the trail. On that day, the girl went for shopping and a movie, after which he planned to commit suicide by jumping from mount Ikoma.

During his testimony, Abe admitted that several times "had fun" with the severed penis of ISIS, took him in my mouth and even tried to insert it into the vagina.

At trial, Abe said the following words:

For the murder and dismemberment of the corpse Garden Abe was sentenced to six years in prison in the women's prison. November 10, 1940, on the occasion of the 2,600 th anniversary of the ascent to the throne of Emperor Jimmu happened Amnesty, Abe was released from prison a year early.

Freed, Abe changed his name, moved to Tokyo and struck up a relationship with a certain rich man. But since that time, the attention of the public to the identity of Japanese women as confined, long to escape it failed. When the lover found out who she really is, he severed all ties with her. About how there was this woman's life in the future, is not known. But police interrogation and testimony Gardens Abe became a national bestseller in Japan in 1936, and its image is firmly in the culture. In rolling out at least three successful films, telling her story, published the book.