The Cordova daily times., 1922-06-01
COUNT KIDNAPS
 SISTER; STOPS
 HER MARRIAGE

former Queen of Chikushi," has been kidnapped and imprihoned in the Tokio home of her brother, Count Yanag;- wara, who denies her the right to marry her youthful lover, Ryusuke Mi yazaki, whose entrance into the life of the woman kept her from commit ting suicide and caused her to leave her husband, Denemon Ito, kyushu, coal king and one of Japan's wealthiest men.
 That is the latest episode in the thrilling love drama which has held the people of Japan enrartrrcd since last October.
 Aki-ko, which means Miss White Lotus, is thirty four years old. She was born of noble Japanese family here. As a girl she developed an art in writing Japanese poetry. and to- day she is considered the country's s leading poetess.
 When she was only sixteen years old the Yanagiwara family, in accord ance with the customs of Janan decid- ed that Aki-ko was old enough to be married Much against her wishes she was taken out of school after a union had been arranged through the cus- tomary go-between with Viscount Kita-koji and soon a son was born to them The marriage was failure, however, and after two years Aki-ko secured the consent of her family and left him.
 RETURNS TO SCHOOL
 She returned to school and devoted all of her time to her poetry, publish ing books which rapidly became very popular and made her known through out the Empire. Then she decided to become a singer, but the family had other plans. A marriage had at last been arranged with Ito, whose exten- sive coal holdings in the southern isl
  wealthy men. They were married seven years ago, Ito being then sixty two years old. He gave his wife S1O,0OO as a betrothal present and erected a home in his province of Chikushi, the elegance of which made it known far and wide as the Chikushi Palace.
 Aki-ko whose beauty made her even more popular with the people of her husbands country than did her poe try. became known as the Queen of Chikushi."
 Although surrounded with wealth luxury, Aki-ko was as unhappy with her second marriage as with the first. Soon after the wedding Ito is said to have begun a life of dissipation, the climax being reached little over year ago when he is alleged to have bought from a house of questionable reputation geisha fer $2,G9o and car ried her into his OVID home to live.
 Then the 'fary Prince of whom she had dreamed came into the life of Aki-ko. He was Miyaz'4ki, twenty four years old, then student at Tokio Imperial University. His trip to Kyu- shu was to confer with with Mrs. Ito about plans for dramatizing one of her poems for production at his school. It was love at first sight and the next few months saw the affair develop ra- pidly. FLEEs FROM HUSBAND : Then last October the coal king brought his wife with him on a busi- ness trp to the capital. He was sud- denly called home, but Mrs. Ito re- mained here to read some of her poems before the Tokio Women's Club. She bid her husband good-by at the station and then promptly disap- peared.
 Several days later she vas found at the home of friend of her youth ful lover. Meanwhile Ito had arrived home to find message from his wife, declaring that at last she had found the love she thought did not exist and that she would never return to him. It was accompanied by all of the jewels and choice possessions he had ever given her. Following lto's consent the family arranged divorce.
 This accomplished, Aki-lio went to