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, and spent a fair amount of time in Aizu. After graduating from university, he worked for the

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for 29 years. Morisada was approached by the

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in the late 1980s, with a request to serve as an official at the mourning ceremony for

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; simultaneously, they expressed a desire to install him as chief priest of

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. Morisada declined the Yasukuni appointment, as the shrine was built to enshrine the soldiers of the

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who died in the

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and exclude those who fought against them, including men of the

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, and

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domains. Morisada had one son, Morihisa Matsudaira.Kobiyama Rokurō, ''Matsudaira Katamori no Shōgai: Shashinshu''. Tokyo: Shin Jinbutsu Ōraisha, 2003, p. 189

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