Born in Tôkyô en 1883. Fifth child and daughter of the zamoto Morita Kan'ya XII, she started to learn many arts from an early age: Nagauta, Tokiwazu, koto, ikebana, tea ceremony and Buyô. She joined in March 1888 a Kabuki women troupe and took the name of Bandô Kimie at the Shintomiza. She took the name of Bandô Tamasaburô III in March 1889 but the Kabuki women experience was a failure and the troupe had to disband. She went to New York in 1904, with a troupe of Japanese artists. Her performances were successful and she decided to settle in the USA to teach Buyô. She died in New York in February 1905.