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*''Born: [[1802]]''
*''Died: [[1850]]''
*''Other Names'': 夢酔 ''(retirement name: Musui)''
*''Japanese'': [[勝]]小吉 ''(Katsu Kokichi)''
Katsu Kokichi was the father of [[Katsu Kaishu|Katsu Kaishû]], and author of the autobiographical ''[[Musui's Story]]'' (''Musui dokugen'', 夢酔独言).
He passed on the headship of the family to his son, and took the name "Musui," meaning, roughly, "drunk on dreams," as his name in retirement. In [[1843]], he wrote the autobiography ''Musui dokugen'' (lit. "Musui talking to himself"), which was in 1988 translated into English by Teruko Craig and published.
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==References==
*Craig, Teruko (trans.). ''Musui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai''. University of Arizona Press, 1988.
[[Category:Samurai]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
*''Died: [[1850]]''
*''Other Names'': 夢酔 ''(retirement name: Musui)''
*''Japanese'': [[勝]]小吉 ''(Katsu Kokichi)''
Katsu Kokichi was the father of [[Katsu Kaishu|Katsu Kaishû]], and author of the autobiographical ''[[Musui's Story]]'' (''Musui dokugen'', 夢酔独言).
He passed on the headship of the family to his son, and took the name "Musui," meaning, roughly, "drunk on dreams," as his name in retirement. In [[1843]], he wrote the autobiography ''Musui dokugen'' (lit. "Musui talking to himself"), which was in 1988 translated into English by Teruko Craig and published.
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==References==
*Craig, Teruko (trans.). ''Musui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai''. University of Arizona Press, 1988.
[[Category:Samurai]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]