Sada Abe was  a prostitute infamous for killing her lover She worked as a maid in a Tokyo hotel, but also served as a geisha-girl prostitute. That is rather ironic as “Sada” in Japanese means “the pure one,” though the obvious pun of the Marquis de Sade somehow always comes to my mind, probably because of her erotic murder. In 1936, Miss Abe strangled her lover cum lover, Kichizo Ichida during mad passion. She was angry as he had just told her e no longer wanted her sexual favours. Bitter, but seemingly sentimental, once he was dead, Sada cut off…