Link: http://www.uq.net.au/~zzhsoszy/states/japan/arisugawa.html
Miyeko Arisugawa (1891-1933) married prince Yoshihisa Tokugawa.
genealogy edited by Jeffrey Taliaferro (http://www.geocities.com/jtaliaferro.geo/miyake.html) gives Miyeko's parentage as imperial prince Takehito Arisugawa (1862-1913) and Yasuko Maeda (1864-1923)
whereas
genealogy edited by Henry Soszynski (http://www.uq.net.au/~zzhsoszy/states/japan/arisugawa.html) gives Miyeko's parentage as prince Tomohito Arisugawa (1854-1895) and Tadako Mizoguchi (1855-1923)
It looks like Tomohito Arisugawa and Takehito Arisugawa were half-brothers. The latter survived his brothers, and became Head of the shinnoke house of Arisugawa, an imperial prince.
These two genealogies contradict each other; the conflict exists because no one can have two pairs of biological parents. I am interested in getting to know who were Miyeko Arisugawa's biological parents.
In Japan, siblings and nephews relatively often got adopted by brothers and uncles (within-family adoption). For example, to organize the line of succession.
It may very well be that one of these two parentages in fact were an adopted parentage of Miyeko. The problem is that on basis of these two conflicting sources, it is not obvious nor known, who of them were the biological parents.
Does anyone know who were biological parents of Miyeko Arisugawa?
And, what is reliable source of that?
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