Sada Abe is prostitute working as a maid in a Tokyo hotel in the Hirohito area, pre-War WWII Japan, 1936. She trangled her lover , Kichizo Ichida, who was also her employer, during mad passion after he told her that he no longer wanted her sexual advances. She then cut off his penis with a carving knife & carried his souvenir for several days, until she was arrested and put on trial.
Asked why his ding a ling, Ms Abe said ““Because I couldn’t take his head or body with me. I wanted to take the part of him that brought back to me the most vivid memories.”
Incredibly she became a folk hero.
In 2015, William Johnston wrote about this macabre episode in the book called ,“Geisha, harlot, Strangler, Star.” Previously the only coverage was within Japan until a movie called “in the Realm of the Senses” was made in 1979. There is a trailer is on Youtube to give an atmospheric feel. The movie is now part of the Criterion Collection and cinema writer Donald Ritchie writes about it here. It has an X-rating. You can buy it at the site too.
Ms. Abe’s Map
Ms. Abe has a wonderful chart, from a purely astrological point of view. She has two Grand Trine Kites, a Yod, a Wedge and a T-Square. The main map shows the Yod going to Mars in his Lord’s house of Scorpio, incredibly in the twelfth from the sextile of the Sun and Venus — pretty lady. That Mars in the twelfth gave her a strong sexual appetite which worked out well for a geisha girl. We read that she and her victim had notoriously long sexual rendevouses — they were insatiable.
Up up and Away with my beautiful balloon!
Grand Trine Kites are supposedly a rare astrological configuration, which is why Ms. Abe having two is striking, and typically this aspect gives an easy-going disposition, but lo and behold, two singers, Whitney Houston and Madonna also have one. Abe’s first Kite is a mutable variation made of Mars, Uranus and Saturn ending with Neptune in the eighth house of legacies and sentimentality. For her parting is such sweet sorrow that she would need a “reminder,” unable with Saturn in Pisces, third house, to let the past go.
Her second Grand Trine Kite is is almost the same composition except for Mercury entering the picture and it too is mutable. One thinks of Glenn Close & Michael Douglas in Fatal Attraction with this setup.
The T-Square, the Sun in Gemini (Mercury ruled) to her ascendant in sword wielding Sagittarius (Jupiter ruled) has its final expression at the Moon in Aries (Mars ruled) in the fourth house of home, hotels and brothels. Her Ascendant per Sepharial, typically a gloomy Gus, is a “man lying upon a heap of stones” suggesting hardship and privation.
In the end
Ms. Abe went to jail for six years and got out in 1942 as War began in Japan. She died in 1966. I haven’t read that she ever married.
Download Sada-Abe‘s chart here.
Teriyaki Style: Sada Abe Sada Abe is prostitute working as a maid in a Tokyo hotel in the Hirohito area, pre-War WWII Japan, 1936.