Classification: Murderer
Characteristics: Erotically asphyxiating her lover and then cutting off his penis and testicles
Number of victims: 1
Date of murder: May 18, 1936
Date of arrest: 3 days after
Date of birth: May 28, 1905
Victim profile: Kichizo Ishida, 42 (her lover)
Method of murder: Strangulation
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Status: Convicted of murder in the second degree and mutilation of a corpse on December 21, 1936. Sentenced to 6 years in prison. Sentence commuted on November 10, 1940. Released on May 17, 1941. Died after 1970
Sada Abe (阿部 定 Abe Sada, May 28, 1905 – after 1970) was a Japanese woman who is remembered for erotically asphyxiating her lover, Kichizo Ishida (石田 吉蔵 Ishida Kichizō), on May 18, 1936, and then cutting off his penis and testicles and carrying them around with her in her handbag. The story became a national sensation in Japan, acquiring mythic overtones, and has since been interpreted by artists, philosophers, novelists and filmmakers...
Abe's encounter with the geisha world proved frustrating and disappointing. To become a true star among geisha required apprenticeship from childhood with years spent studying arts and music. Abe wound up a low-ranking geisha, in which her main duties were to provide sex. She worked for five years in this capacity, and eventually contracted syphilis. Since this meant she would be required to undergo regular examinations, like a legally licensed prostitute, Abe decided to enter that better-paying profession.
..."She was really strong, a real powerful one. Even though I am pretty jaded, she was enough to astound me. She wasn't satisfied unless we did it two, three, or four times a night. To her, it was unacceptable unless I had my hand on her private parts all night long... At first it was great, but after a couple of weeks I got a little exhausted." ..
Kasahara ended his testimony with an angry remark about Abe, "She is a slut and a whore. And as what she has done makes clear, she is a woman whom men should fear." ..
... Omiya met Abe in Tokyo, and, finding that she had contracted syphilis, paid for her stay in a hot springs resort in Kusatsu from November until January 1936. ..
Back in Tokyo, Abe began work as an apprentice at the Yoshidaya on February 1, 1936. The owner of this establishment, Kichizo Ishida, 42 at the time, had worked his way up in business, starting as an apprentice at an eel restaurant. He had opened the Yoshidaya in Tokyo's Nakano neighborhood in 1920. When Abe joined his restaurant, Ishida was known as a womanizer who did little in the way of running the restaurant, which was managed mostly by his wife...
On April 23, 1936 Abe and Ishida met for a pre-arranged sexual encounter at a teahouse, or machiai – the contemporary equivalent of a love hotel – in the Shibuya neighborhood. Planning only a short 'fling', the couple remained in bed for four days. *
They next moved their marathon love-making bout to the Ogu neighborhood. Ishida did not return to the restaurant until the morning of May 8, 1936. Of Ishida, Abe later said, "It is hard to say exactly what was so good about Ishida. But it was impossible to say anything bad about his looks, his attitude, his skill as a lover, the way he expressed his feelings. I had never met such a sexy man."
After they separated, Abe became agitated and began drinking excessively. She claimed that with Ishida she knew love for the first time in her life, and the thought that Ishida was back with his wife made her jealous. Over a week before the murder, Abe began considering the act.
On May 9, 1936, she attended a play in which a geisha attacks her lover with a large knife. After seeing this, Abe decided to threaten Ishida with a knife at their next meeting. On May 11, 1936, she pawned some of her clothing and used the money to buy some sushi and a kitchen knife. Abe later described meeting Ishida that night, "I pulled the kitchen knife out of my bag and threatened him as had been done in the play I had seen, saying, 'Kichi, you wore that kimono just to please one of your favorite customers. You bastard, I'll kill you for that.' Ishida was startled and drew away a little, but he seemed delighted with it all..."
"Abe Sada Incident"
Ishida and Abe returned to Ogu, where they remained until his death. During their love-making this time, Abe put the knife to the base of Ishida's penis, and said she would make sure he would never play around with another woman. Ishida laughed at this. Two nights into this bout of sex, Abe began choking Ishida, and he told her to continue, saying that this increased his pleasure. She had him do it to her as well.
On the evening of May 16, 1936, Abe used her obi sash to cut off Ishida's breathing during orgasm, and they both enjoyed it. They repeated this for two more hours. Once Abe stopped the strangulation, Ishida's face became distorted, and would not return to its normal appearance. Ishida took 30 tablets of a sedative called Calmotin to try to soothe his pain. According to Abe, as Ishida started to doze, he told her, "You'll put the cord around my neck and squeeze it again while I'm sleeping, won't you... If you start to strangle me, don't stop, because it is so painful afterward." Abe commented that she wondered if he had wanted her to kill him, but on reflection decided he must have been joking.
About 2 a.m. on the morning of May 18, 1936, as Ishida was asleep, Abe wrapped her sash twice around his neck and strangled him to death. She later told police, "After I had killed Ishida I felt totally at ease, as though a heavy burden had been lifted from my shoulders, and I felt a sense of clarity." After lying with Ishida's body for a few hours, she next severed his genitalia with the kitchen knife, wrapped them in a magazine cover, and kept them until her arrest three days later. With the blood she wrote Sada, Kichi Futari-kiri ("Sada, Kichi together") on Ishida's left thigh, and on a bed sheet. She then carved 定 ("Sada", the character for her name) into his left arm. After putting on Ishida's underwear, she left the inn at about 8 a.m., telling the staff not to disturb Ishida. When asked why she had severed Ishida's genitalia, Abe replied, "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."
http://murderpedia.org/female.A/a/abe-sada.htm
Now, a lot of people will read this and judge Sada as guilty but who are we to judge ?
What Sada did was part of her culture and who can say that your culture is better than...
* OK, we at ABE Ministry know that way of rationalising evil is complete and utter bull shit and so Raider Fan must confess he posted this story because it is so damn weird AND, it gives him the opportunity to post this vid - The Ballad of John and Yoko and its referent to when they spent a week in bed for peace (yes, homonym pun).
O, and the fifty acorns tied in a sack? John and Yoko mailed acorns to world leaders telling them to plant the acorns as a way to achieve peace.
No, seriously, they did that and one suspects the world leaders did not plant the acorns and, thus, No acorn planting, no peace; plant acorns know peace lives on as THE pluperfect peace slogan for all time.
Raider Fan's Dad hated it when he played this song- the reference to crucifying - but to be fair to Raider Fan, he was smoking marijuana back then, so, there's that...
See, if you were alive in the 1960s and were not stoned, you could not have possibly tolerated crap like this - the two John and Yoko Peace Ins - and the media actually covered this on the national news and while all of this was going on, we decided it was opportune to have an Ecumenical Council and open ourselves up to being influenced by the world which, it was claimed, had reached a level of admirable maturity...In the daily exercise of our pastoral office, we sometimes have to listen, much to our regret, to voices of persons who, though burning with zeal, are not endowed with too much sense of discretion or measure. In these modern times they can see nothing but prevarication and ruin. They say that our era, in comparison with past eras, is getting worse, and they behave as though they had learned nothing from history, which is, none the less, the teacher of life. They behave as though at the time of former Councils everything was a full triumph for the Christian idea and life and for proper religious liberty.
O, as it turned-out, having these two clowns in bed for a week and inviting Timothy Leary and other assorted whack-jobs over to sing this song did not result in peace.
http://murderpedia.org/female.A/a/abe-sada.htm
Now, a lot of people will read this and judge Sada as guilty but who are we to judge ?
What Sada did was part of her culture and who can say that your culture is better than...
* OK, we at ABE Ministry know that way of rationalising evil is complete and utter bull shit and so Raider Fan must confess he posted this story because it is so damn weird AND, it gives him the opportunity to post this vid - The Ballad of John and Yoko and its referent to when they spent a week in bed for peace (yes, homonym pun).
O, and the fifty acorns tied in a sack? John and Yoko mailed acorns to world leaders telling them to plant the acorns as a way to achieve peace.
No, seriously, they did that and one suspects the world leaders did not plant the acorns and, thus, No acorn planting, no peace; plant acorns know peace lives on as THE pluperfect peace slogan for all time.
Raider Fan's Dad hated it when he played this song- the reference to crucifying - but to be fair to Raider Fan, he was smoking marijuana back then, so, there's that...
See, if you were alive in the 1960s and were not stoned, you could not have possibly tolerated crap like this - the two John and Yoko Peace Ins - and the media actually covered this on the national news and while all of this was going on, we decided it was opportune to have an Ecumenical Council and open ourselves up to being influenced by the world which, it was claimed, had reached a level of admirable maturity...In the daily exercise of our pastoral office, we sometimes have to listen, much to our regret, to voices of persons who, though burning with zeal, are not endowed with too much sense of discretion or measure. In these modern times they can see nothing but prevarication and ruin. They say that our era, in comparison with past eras, is getting worse, and they behave as though they had learned nothing from history, which is, none the less, the teacher of life. They behave as though at the time of former Councils everything was a full triumph for the Christian idea and life and for proper religious liberty.
We feel we must disagree with those prophets of gloom, who are always forecasting disaster, as though the end of the world were at hand.
In the present order of things, Divine Providence is leading us to a new order of human relations which, by men's own efforts and even beyond their very expectations, are directed toward the fulfillment of God's superior and inscrutable designs. And everything, even human differences, leads to the greater good of the Church.
They flew to Montreal on May 26 where they stayed in Rooms 1738, 1740, 1742 and 1744 at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel. During their seven day stay, they invited Timothy Leary, Tommy Smothers, Dick Gregory, Murray the K, Al Capp, Allen Ginsberg and others, and all but Capp sang on the peace anthem "Give Peace a Chance", recorded by André Perry in the hotel room on June 1. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation conducted interviews from the hotel room.[7] The event received mixed reaction from the American press.[8][9]