SEI.--Wife of Genzō and mother of Katsugoro. Thirty-nine years old this sixth year of Bunsei. Daughter of Murata Kichitarō, samurai,--once an archer in the service of the Lord of Owari. When Sei was twelve years old she was a maid-servant, it is said, in the house of Honda Dainoshin Dono. When she was thirteen years old, her father, Kichitarō was dismissed forever for a certain cause from the service of the Lord of Owari, and he became a rōnin.[2] He died at the age of seventy-five, on the twenty-fifth day of the fourth month of the fourth year of Bunkwa [1807]. His grave is in the cemetery of the temple called Eirin-ji, of the Zen sect, in the village of Shimo-Yusuki.
TSUYA.--Grandmother of Katsugoro. Seventy-two years old this sixth year of Bunsei. When young she served as maid in the household of Matsudaira Oki-no-Kami Dono [Daimyō].
FUSA.--Elder sister of Katsugoro. Fifteen years old this year.
OTOJIRŌ.--Elder brother of Katsugoro. Fourteen years old this year.
TSUNÉ.--Younger sister of Katsugoro. Four years old this year.
TŌZŌ.--Died at the age of six in Hodo-kubo-mura, in the district called Tamagori in the province of Musashi. Estate of Nakané Uyemon, whose yashiki is in the street Ata-rashi-bashi-dōri, Shitaya, Yedo. Jurisdiction of Komiya.--[Tōzō] was born in the second year of Bunkwa [1805], and died at about the fourth hour of the day [10 _o'clock in the morning_] on the fourth clay of the second month of the seventh year of Bunkwa [1810]. The sickness of which he died was smallpox. Buried in the graveyard on the hill above the village before-mentioned,--Hodokubo-mura.--Parochial temple: Iwōji in Misawa-mura. Sect: Zen-shū. Last year the fifth year of Bunkwa [1822], the _jiū-san kwaiki_[3] was said for Tōzō.
HANSHIRŌ.--Stepfather of Tōzō. Family name: Suzaki. Fifty years old this sixth year of Bunsei.
SHIDZU.--Mother of Tōzō. Forty-nine years old this sixth year of Bunsei.
KYŪBEI (afterwards TOGŌRŌ).--Real father of Tōzō. Original name, Kyūbei, afterwards changed to Togōrō. Died at the age of forty-eight, in the sixth year of Bunkwa [1809], when Tözö was five years old. To replace him, Hanshirō became an _iri-muko_.[4]
CHILDREN: TWO BOYS AND TWO GIRLS.--These are Hanshirō's children by the mother of Tōzō.