Momoko Kōchi: Difference between revisions

| death_cause = ColorectalColon cancer

Later in the same year, Kōchi toured the [[Tōhoku region]] with the troupe for performances of {{nihongo||ゆの暖簾|Yu no noren}}. During the tour, she complained about her poor health, and she was diagnosed with [[colorectal cancer|colon cancer]] in January 1998. Her cancer spread rapidly, and she did not undergo surgery at the time of diagnosis. One year earlier, on 15 December, her final performance was in [[Tsuruoka, Yamagata]].{{citation needed|date=December 2015}}

Kōchi continued to perform on stage until she died on 5 November 1998 at the [[Japanese Red Cross]] Medical Center in [[Hiroo, Shibuya]] from colorectalcolon cancer at the age of 66.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=B4QQAQAAMAAJ&q=%E4%B9%85%E6%9D%BE+%E6%A1%83%E5%AD%90&dq=%E4%B9%85%E6%9D%BE+%E6%A1%83%E5%AD%90&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjK_JWLlZjMAhXEOiYKHf6uCy0Q6AEIJDAB Gekkan shinbun daijesuto - Volume 33]. 1999. Retrieved 18 April 2016. {{ja-icon}}</ref> On 29 October, a week before her death, she was baptised into the Roman Catholic Church under her baptismal name of "Maria" by Father Masahiro Kondō of the [[Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer]].{{citation needed|date=February 2016}} Her grave is at [[Yanaka Cemetery]] in [[Taitō]].<ref>[http://ya-na-ka.sakura.ne.jp/kouchiMomoko.htm 河内桃子]. 谷中・桜木・上野公園裏路地ツアー. Retrieved 14 February 2016. {{ja icon}}</ref>