Shibusawa Eiichi, who was featured in 2021 in Reach Beyond the Blue Sky and also became the face of the new Reiwa 10,000-yen note, should have been a retainer of the Mito Domain, but now it is that he was from the territory of the Okabe Domain…
Shibusawa Eiichi, who was featured in “Seiten wo Tsuke” in 2021 and also became the face on the new Reiwa 10,000-yen banknote, should have been a Mito retainer, but it has become that he was born in the territory of the Okabe Domain and later served the Shizuoka Domain and the Hitotsubashi house. According to one person’s memory, Shibusawa Eiichi was a Mito retainer (by adoption as a son-in-law) from a wealthy farming family in Mito, and under the influence of his father-in-law and his father-in-law’s brother-in-law (relatives on his wife’s mother’s side) he joined the Tengu Party, but he protested their tyranny against peasants and had his life targeted by his comrades (at this time, due to his father-in-law’s anger he was divorced, lost samurai status, and returned to his family home), and even after this his life was targeted by the Tengu Party. However, since Eiichi had talent and was also skilled at arithmetic, and had been noticed by Hitotsubashi Yoshinobu since his days as a Mito retainer, he somehow managed to ride out the assassination attempts, but on a late autumn day, his household was attacked by unidentified bandits, and all his family members (including small children) other than Eiichi, who that night was away on official business from the domain, were cut down, and his older sister who had married into another house, and his younger sister who was cut but survived, and Eiichi were the ones who lived. At this juncture he left the Mito Domain relying on relatives, went to Edo, and attended a swordsmanship dojo (in order to strike down the attackers and avenge them), and at that time, while he was in Edo, he was scouted by Hitotsubashi Yoshinobu into the Hitotsubashi Domain as an arithmetic officer—such is the career as remembered. Also, in the matter of his divorce, between the eldest son he had left in the first wife’s family and the son-in-law who married his daughter by the next wife (all the male children born with the next wife died young), a…
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.