His heirs and successors, so they were all called Ariyemon until the author's father. His grandfather who was a fair type of samurai, was a person of high character, upright in his conduct; reserved and mild in his manner; determined and stern in his principles: he was also himself gifted and distinguished as a scholar, as well as in his profession of gunnery. The lord favoured him, entrusting the tutorship of his august son to his hand. The author's father, too, who is now an old man, and enjoying his son's literary success and fame, is well equipped in all the training of samurai, and has inherited the father's distinguished literary talent; even after the restoration he often took the tutorship of the sons of the noble fami lies. The author's grandfather has' published several volumes of his poems and other works, and his father several works on history.

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