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 | | He was clearly also intelligent and popular, not just with the likes of Nagakura Shinpachi and Saitou Hajime, but also the ladies, having a mistress in Gion, a tayuu in Wachigaya and another mistress with whom he had a son. |
 | | By the age of eighteen he was teaching kenjutsu, a master of the Sandanzuki (‘Three Piece Thrust’; striking the neck, left then right shoulders), and was considered along with Saitou Hajime and Nagakura Shinpachi as the most accomplished swordsmen, if the second youngest (the youngest being Toudou Heisuke) in the Shinsengumi. |
 | | Beneath this group were the advisor Kastihtarou Itou and the nine troop captains (Okita Souji, Nagakura Shinpachi, Saitou Hajime, Matsubara Chuuji, Takeda Kanryuusai, Inoue Genzaburou, Tani Sanjuurou, Toudou Heisuke, Suzuki Mikisaburou and Harada Sanosuke), with each tai (unit) composed of two corporals and ten men. |
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