At the age of 39, she remarried over opposition to Yukiyoshi SHIKATA, a student of Doshisha University who was 13-year junior to her and a devout Christian who was baptized by Joseph Hardy Neesima (Joe NIIJIMA).
-39歳の時13歳年下の同志社の学生で、新島襄から洗礼を受け敬虔なキリスト教徒だった志方之善（しかたゆきよし）と周囲の反対を押し切り再婚する。