Ine returned to Nagasaki, where she earned her midwife's license in 1884. She returned to Tokyo in 1889 and may have retired by 1895,[22] at which time the family moved into a Western-style house Heinrich had had built in Azabu.[21] She died there on 27 August 1903 after eating freshwater eel and watermelon, which are said to have given her food poisoning.[23] She enjoyed the social support of the Western-style medical and scholarly communities, the high regard of her students and fellow practitioners, and the financial support of her father.[22]