Kakita Toshimo

Kakita Toshimo was the father of Kakita Toshimoko, Kakita Yoshi and Kakita Teinko, and the sensei of the Kakita Dueling Academy. During Toshimoko's youth everyone remarked how upon how similar he was to his father. For years he would be called "Little Toshimo", and at his gempukku he took his fathers name to honor his father. The two were extremely alike in temperament, features and skill, and Toshimoko was his father's pride and joy. To tell them apart in conversation the Kakita family began to call the younger Toshimo "Toshimo-ko", using the women's diminutive to imply Toshimoko was the smaller of the two men. After Toshimo's death the diminutive was kept by Toshimoko in honor of his fathers memory. (Crane p. 87)