List of Famous people with last name Yae

Niijima Yae

First Name Niijima
Last Name Yae
Born on December 1, 1845
Died on June 14, 1932 (aged 86)

Niijima Yae , also known as Yamamoto Yaeko , was a Japanese female warrior, nurse and scholar of the late Edo period who lived into the early Shōwa period. Skilled in gunnery, she helped defend Aizu during the Boshin War, earning her the nickname of the “Bakumatsu Joan of Arc”. Yaeko served as a nurse during the Russo-Japanese War and Sino-Japanese War, and became the first woman outside of Imperial House of Japan after the Meiji Restoration to be decorated for her service to the country.

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