Tane Ikai

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Tane Ikai (猪飼たね Ikai Tane January 18, 1879 – July 12, 1995)^{[citation needed]} is Japan's oldest female on record and their oldest undisputed person since the beginning of the koseki system in 1879.^{[citation needed]} She became Japan's oldest person at age 113 in 1992 following the death of Waka Shirahama, who was 114.^{[citation needed]} Ikai moved to a retirement home in 1972 at age 93, suffered from a stroke at ages 99 and 113, and had been bed-ridden since.^{[citation needed]} She had three meals of rice gruel a day. She died at 116 years and 175 days of kidney failure in Nagoya. Her body was the first known supercentenarian to be autopsied.^{[citation needed]}