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Yuki Kato was the daughter of a samuraiswordsmith.[6] As a Gion geisha, she was known as "Kokyū no Sekka" (胡弓の雪香) for her "sublime" performances on the traditional kokyū instrument.[7] George Morgan arrived in Japan in 1902 and saw Yuki performing at Miyako Odori geisha theater.[8] He courted Yuki for two years and paid her debt to the Okiya house for $20,000.00.[9]
Gorge Denison Morgan
It was reported to the Morgan family in the US that the young lady he married came from an excellent family. However, according to some accounts of their reception in the US, she was rejected and ostracized by the Morgans.[10][11][12][13] She accompanied Morgan to Paris, France. He died of heart failure in Spain in 1915.[14]
Yuki then returned to Kyoto in 1938 and became a Roman Catholic in 1953. During this time, Kato experienced close police surveillance. The Morgan family found Yuki after the Second World War and supported her.[15] She became well known in Japan as a result of a 1951 musical based on her life.[16] She had never had a child. She was buried in Kyoto.[17]
^Look Japan 18-429 1991 p44 "OYUKI Morgan (1881-1963) was living proof that envy and censure have always been two sides of a coin. ... Born in Kyoto in 1881, Yuki Kato (later she would be called Oyuki) was the youngest of five children."
^Morgan O-Yuki: Geisha of the Gilded Age. Morgan O-Yuki: Geisha of the Gilded Age. by Gail M. Burns, July 2006. "Born in Kyoto, Yuki Kato (1881-1963) ...the daughter of a Samuri sword-maker, an honorable profession, but one that was on the wane in .."
^Stephen Longstreet - We all went to Paris: Americans in the City of Light, 1776-1971 - 1972 Page 228 "This true Madame Butterfly story began in 1902 when the American, George Morgan — a close relative of the great womanizer and multimillionaire, Pierpont Morgan — landed in Japan. He was fleeing a busted romance in New York City, and ..."
^Time (magazine) vol.81 1963 p63 "Yuki Kato Morgan, 81, widow of wealthy George Morgan, a beautiful Japanese Geisha girl who withstood the pleas of young Morgan (a nephew of J. P. Sr.) for nearly two years, at last in 1903, unlike Madame Butterfly, married the man and .."
^The World Almanac and Encyclopedia - 1916 Page 619 "Josephine Adams Perry. 1 Sarah Speaker Morgan Mil. 9. Caroline Lucy Morgan 2 Alexander Perry Morgan. 3. George D. Morgan: m. Yuki Kato, Jan. 21, 1904;he d.1915. 2. Mary Lyman Morgan, b 1844; m. 1867, Walter Haynes Burns; he died ..."
^Marshall Everett - 2005 Exciting Experiences in the Japanese Russian War - Page 363 "At the same time George D. Morgan, nephew of J. Pierpont Morgan, came tripping back to America with a Japanese bride, Yuki Kato — surely an evidence that that young globe trotter subscribed to no dark views of the Japanese woman."
^Time - Volume 50 - Page 36 Briton Hadden, Henry Robinson Luce - 1947 "But from the moment he first spied her picture outside the Ono- Tei tea house, George D. Morgan (son of J. P. Sr.'s sister Sarah and a distant cousin, George Hale Morgan) thought more & more of fragile, fragrant O-Yuki and less & less of a ..."
^Jack Seward Strange But True Stories from Japan 2000- Page 62- "Yuki Kato had become Oyuki Morgan, a genuine member in good standing of the opulent Morgan clan. ... Later in 1905, Mr. and Mrs. George D. Morgan ("George and Oyuki" to the Newport set) crossed the Pacific and arrived in Portland"
^Ron Chernow The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of ... - 2001 p555 "In 1904, Pierpont Morgan's nephew George Morgan, living in Yokohama and collecting Japanese art, married Yuki Kato. Although George's friends told reporters, "I understand that the young lady he has married comes of an excellent family," ..."
^Arthur GoldenMemoirs of a Geisha : a Novel 2005 author's preface p2 "The renowned Kato Yuki — a geisha who captured the heart of George Morgan, nephew of J. Pierpont, and became his bride-in-exile during the first decade of this century — may have lived a life even more unusual in some ways than Sayuri .."
^Chernow, p. 556. "Adding to Yuki's fame was a musical based on her life, which depicts her as pining for a young student as she is signed over to George Morgan. When Morgan negotiators made the rounds in Tokyo [in the 1970s], staid bureaucrats would stop to ask about Yuki Morgan."
