While she was studying at Tokuyama girl's school (later Yamaguchi Prefectural Tokuyama Koto Gakko (high school), she fell in love with Tekkan YOSANO, a teacher of the school, began to live together without getting married, and gave birth to her son Atsumu.
徳山女学校（のちの山口県立徳山高等学校）に在籍時に、当時そこの教師であった与謝野鉄幹と恋愛関係に陥り、同棲、一子萃（あつむ）を設ける。