THE STUART FAMILY ARCHIVE
Fuminosuke Kamura — original 1915 directory entry and verified calendar conversion
Evidence reference: WEB-20261031-182837-0465b475
Evidence status: Added by a family editor; independent verification not established
Historical date: 13 November 1849
Collection: Rei / Date research
Jinji Koshinroku, 4th edition, January 1915, original scanned page image651, printed section か210. Entry 香村文之助 begins middle left and continues lower right. Original explicitly records 嘉永二年九月二十九日, matching Nagoya University's transcription. National Astronomical Observatory of Japan Japanese Calendar Database, https://eco.mtk.nao.ac.jp/cgi-bin/koyomi/caldb_en.cgi, checked31October2026: Type Japanese to Solar, Era嘉永,year2,month9,day29,Leap unchecked,Gregorian Calendar selected ->1849-11-13. This is calendar normalization of a precisely stated historical date, not a newly inferred birthday or a Gregorian September29. Birth remains sourced to a published historical directory, not a civil birth register. No change to the unresolved Ichiro identity bridge to Rei. Full supplied original page JPEG1972x2905 downloaded from https://jahis.law.nagoya-u.ac.jp/who/si/5940fe56df80b031c3d5156c/0/651/full.jpg. The complete original is attached and its downloaded-back SHA-256 matches bb76f0ea8a618eeb786f9b02dec2c03d430f38b8d75e53910226fd6ccc421987.