Listening to the new History of Japan (a biography of Matsuo Taseko) and actually burst out laughing at

"After her death, people went right to work sanding off all the awkward sharp edges to make her an ideal of patriotic and dutiful imperial womanhood. Except one 1911 biography which turns her life into a swashbuckling lesbian romance where a geisha falls helplessly in love with her, and also she's an expert swordswoman after being trained by loyalist samurai"