5.--[NAMES OF THE MEMBERS OF THE TWO FAMILIES CONCERNED.]

[Family of Genzo.]

KATSUGORO.--Born the 10th day of the 10th month of the twelfth year of Bunkwa [1815]. Nine years old this sixth year of

Bunsei [1823].[1] Second son of Genzo, a farmer living in Tanitsuiri in Nakano-mura, district of Tamagori, province of Musashi.--Estate of Tamon Dempachiro, whose yashiki is in the street called Shichikencho, Nedzu, Yedo.--Jurisdiction of Yusuki.

GENZO.--Father of Katsugoro. Family name, Koyada. Forty-nine years old this sixth year of Bunsei. Being poor, he occupies himself with the making of baskets, which he sells in Yedo. The name of the inn at which he lodges while in Yedo is Sagamiya, kept by one Kihei, in Bakuro-cho.

SEI.--Wife of Genzo and mother of Katsugoro. Thirty-nine years old this sixth year of Bunsei. Daughter of Murata Kichitaro, 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, Kichitaro

[1. The Western reader is requested to bear in mind that the year in which a Japanese child is born is counted always as one year in the reckoning of age.]

was dismissed forever for a certain cause from the service of the Lord of Owari, and he became a ronin.[1] 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 [Daimyo].

FUSA.--Elder sister of Katsugoro. Fifteen years old this year.

OTOJIRO.--Elder brother of Katsugoro. Fourteen years old this year.

TSUME--Younger sister of Katsugoro. Four years old this year.

[1. Lit.: "A wave-man,"--a wandering samurai without a lord. The ronin were generally a desperate and very dangerous class; but there were some fine characters among them.]

[Family of Hanshiro.]

TOZO.--Died at the age of six in Hodokubo-mura, in the district called Tamagori in the province of Musashi. Estate of Nakane Uyemon, whose yashiki is in the street Atarashi-bashi-dori, Shitaya, Yedo. Jurisdiction of Komiya.--[Tozo] 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 day 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: Iwoji in Misawa-mura. Sect: Zen-shu. Last year the fifth year of Bunkwa [1822], the jiu-san kwaiki[1] was said for Tozo.

HANSHIRO.--Stepfather of Tozo. Family