Thank You

[Foster Yamamura]

Many thanks for excepting me to your forum, my name is Geoffrey Foster/ Yamamura my grandfather was Takisaburo Yamamura and cousin is Tsunahiro Yamamura of Kamakura.

I hope to make many new friends and improve my knowledge.

Thank you

[b.hennick]

Welcome! You will find this a friendly forum with many knowledgeable members.

Regards,

Barry Hennick

[uwe]

Welcome Geoffrey!

[dominnimod]

Greetings! Always a pleasure to see new friendly members 

[Greg F]

Welcome aboard Geoffrey I hope you get as much learning and pleasure as I do from this great forum and the great wealth of knowledge that the more experienced members are so kind to share. All the best.

 

Greg

[Wah]

Foster,

Wow, that's pretty amazing about your relation Geoffrey! So you are cousins with the 24th descendant of Masamune??

Stephen T.

[Foster Yamamura]

Foster,

Wow, that's pretty amazing about your relation Geoffrey! So you are cousins with the 24th descendant of Masamune??

Stephen T.

Yes I only discovered this after my father passed away, he was half Japanese and post war living in the UK with a Japanese name must have been very difficult so the family two brothers and two sisters took on their mothers name. None of the family spoke of this and we only found out when sorting through things afterwards. I am very proud of my heritage and have been too visit my relations in Kamakura. Amazing

[w.y.chan]

Fancy that, a relation of Masamune living in the UK

 

BTW are you a Japanese sword collector?

 

 

Wah

[Ken-Hawaii]

Aloha, Foster, & welcome to the forum. Tsunahiro Yamamura's son, Takamasa Yamamura is Head Minister at Myohoji Temple here in Hawaii (http://honolulumyohoji.org/profile/), so here's another of your relatives.

 

He is also an opera singer, but even as the 25th generation, he has nothing to do with Nihonto.

 

Ken