She became acquainted with Jo NIIJIMA, who regularly visited her brother, then left the school and started to make arrangements for the wedding in 1875, and married him in January of the following 1876.
兄の元に出入りしていた新島襄と知り合い、明治8年（1875年）には女紅場を退職して準備を始め、翌明治9年1月に結婚。