Vice-Commander Hijikata Toshizo of the Shinsengumi, instead of the character for “earth” (tsuchi) in “Hijikata,” many remember it as the character for “warrior” (shi), that is, “Shikata Toshizo,” and not a few people remember it that way.
There are quite a few people who remember that the Shinsengumi vice-commander Hijikata Toshizo did not have the tsuchi character meaning “soil” in his family name but rather the shi character meaning “gentleman/samurai,” i.e., that it was Shikata Toshizo. On this point as well, again, many people have what you could call a “transition-measure” kind of episodic memory, for example memories of being corrected by a teacher or the like (such as being told that doing so would make it read as “dokata,” and so on slang for construction laborer, considered derogatory ). For reference, while Hijikata Toshizo was in his lifetime a native-born peasant of Bushu Tama (the Tama area of Musashi Province), he apparently told the Mitsui money exchange (the Mitsui ryogae-ten, an Edo-period money-changing house) that he was of samurai stock, specifically the second son of the goyōnin (steward/agent) of Uga Mimasaka-no-kami (Uga Masahatsu or Masakata). It is possible he said this as a convenient expedient so as not to be looked down on, but some historical researchers have also said he may have had a complex about it.
This case is part of the Mandela Effect case database based on "The Window of Opportunity: A Guidepost to the Mandela Effect — The Ultra-Secret X-Files" by Aoyama Takuto.