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Re: Ueshiba family samurai?
Hello Fred,
In the family tree that appears in the Japanese original of Kisshomaru's biography, the Ueshiba family line starts with Kichiemon and Kisshomaru adds the following comment:
秋津、植芝家より一女を連れ西ノ谷村に隠居、別に植芝家を建てる。
So Kichiemon was adopted when he married a Ueshiba daughter. But this does not go very far back into the Tokugawa era.
Given Kisshomaru's detailed discussion of whereabouts in Tanabe the Ueshiba family house was situated, I think that if the Ueshibas had been samurai, this would have been proclaimed from the housetops.
Best wishes,
PAG
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