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And so apparently I married a pirate...
The stubble and the devil-may-care attitude give it away maybe?
Was at dinner with the J Family earlier. As I commented to Younger Brother when he came to pick us up, I find it really hard sometimes at dinner to follow the conversation as JMum and JAuntie tend to talk at the same time to me about different topics - and as I've mentioned before I'm thinking about hiring them out to test Japanese fluency because you really need to be at some kind of weird level to understand what is going on half the time. I only manage to do it because I think my brain can split into sections somehow to deal with this. Probably takes training.
The boys usually don't say much at all - I don't think their brains work the same as mine.
Anyway I don't tend to retain much of the conversation (probably killed those retaining brain bits off with sake) but some nuggets of information I do. And one of those areas is family history.
Tonight when I got back I pressed the Boy for a bit more information on the mere snippet that came up earlier. Even though it's come up before about them descending from kaizoku (pirates) I wanted to know more. The Boy isn't interested in his own family history so much - for reasons I'm not so sure about just yet but probably related to the fact that he's young.
However a bit of "subtle" questioning tonight provided the following information - they are related to the infamous Murakami Suigen.
The what? The Murakami Suigen was a pirate family who controlled the seas around Shikoku in the 16th century. There is even a Murakami Suigun Museum in Ehime, and the Innoshima Pirates Castle which you can visit.
Even though the Boy's last name is Sueyasu, JMums maiden name is Murakami. There is some controversy involving his grandfather (now deceased) remarrying another woman and their children going on the family register for the Murakami line, and JMum and her sisters being listed somewhere else. However it seems likely that due to the high number of girls born into the family the Boy and Younger Brother may be the only male descendants of a particular line of the Murakami Pirate mob.
And I intend to find out. For the sake of curiosity.
First stop - grill JMum and JAuntie separately. Then maybe take a trip along to these museums. Who wants to tag along?
Posted by mjd-s on March 4, 2007 1:02 AM