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Created on 2005-03-12 22:29:55 (#6430757), last updated 2005-03-17

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Name:Okita Mitsu
Birthdate:05-20
Location:London, England, United Kingdom
Bio
As Soujirou's older sister, I assume license to tease and annoy him! *cackle*

- Born on Tenpo 4, April 8 (May 20, 1833 by the Western calendar)

Marriage:

- In Koka 3 (1846), at age 14, Mitsu married Inoue Rintaro, younger brother of Inoue Sozo, who was related to Inoue Genzaburo.

- Inoue Rintaro, by marrying into the Okita family as an adopted heir, became (full name) Okita Rintaro Fujiwara no Mototsune. Later became a captain in the Shinchogumi.

Children:

- In Man'ei 6 Jan. 26 (Western style- 1853 April 5), their first son Yoshijiro was born.
- Ansei 2 Jul. 17 (Western style- 1855 August 29), 1st daughter Ishi was born.
- Genji 1, Oct. 26 (Western style- 1864 Nov. 25), 2nd daughter Kuma born.
- Meiji 11 (1878) Jul. 12, 2nd son Sugukichi born.

Residence:

- In 1863, Mitsu and Rintaro moved to Yotsuya Tenmacho Itchome.

- In 1863, Rintaro joined the Roshigumi, which went to Kyoto, came back, and became Shinchogumi, under the sponsorship of the Shonai domain. At that point, they moved to a kumi-yashiki at the former site of the mansion of Tanuma Harushige. They lived there until the Boshin War.

- Keio 4, Feb. 26 (March 19, 1868), the family left Edo at the orders of Shonai.

- Meiji 5, they returned to Tokyo, lived in a place called the "Ume-yashiki" (Plum Mansion) in Sumida-Mukaijima. Rintaro died on Feb. 13, Meiji 16 (1883) at age 58.

- Mitsu then lived in Shiogama in the former Sendai domain.

- On Jan. 26, Meiji 28 (1895), Mitsu returned to Hino, lived with Inoue Kyuzaburo.

- Soon after, Ishi married, and then Sugukichi went to Manchuria. Mitsu followed him there in Meiji 39, dying there on Nov. 2, Meiji 40 (1907), at around 10 in the morning, without returning home.

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