Editing Isoroku Yamamoto (section)

==Personal life==
Yamamoto practiced [[Japanese calligraphy|calligraphy]]. He and his wife, Reiko, had four children: two sons and two daughters. Yamamoto was an avid gambler, enjoying ''[[Go (game)|Go]]'',<ref>'The Broken Seal' by [[Ladislas Farago]]</ref><!--publisher, place, date & page?-->{{page needed|date=September 2015}} ''[[shogi]]'', [[billiards]], [[Contract bridge|bridge]], [[mah jong|mahjong]], [[poker]], and other games that tested his wits and sharpened his mind. He frequently made jokes about moving to [[Monaco]] and starting his own [[casino]].

He enjoyed the company of ''[[geisha]]'', and his wife Reiko revealed to the Japanese public in 1954 that Yamamoto was closer to his favorite ''geisha'' Kawai Chiyoko than to her, which stirred some controversy.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=30637945979864 |title=H-Net Review: Charles C. Kolb on The Pearl Harbor Papers: Inside the Japanese Plans |access-date=October 21, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070627012638/http://h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=30637945979864 |archive-date=June 27, 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> His funeral procession passed by Kawai's quarters on the way to the cemetery.<ref>Davis, ''Lightning Strike''.</ref> Yamamoto was close friends with [[Teikichi Hori]], a Navy admiral and Yamamoto's classmate from the [[Imperial Japanese Naval Academy]] who was purged from the Navy for supporting the [[Washington Naval Treaty]]. Before and during the war Yamamoto frequently corresponded with Hori, these personal letters would become the subject of the [[NHK]] documentary ''The Truth of Yamamoto''.<ref>{{Citation |last=NHK |title=山本五十六の真実 「遺された手紙」 - BS1スペシャル |url=https://www.nhk.jp/p/bs1sp/ts/YMKV7LM62W/episode/te/QZJV15NXMM/ |language=ja |access-date=2022-07-06}}</ref>

The claim that Yamamoto was a [[Catholic Church|Catholic]]<ref>{{Citation|last=Sensus Fidelium|title=The Other Americans: Loyalists, Confederates, & Other Dissenters ~ Charles Coulombe|date=2017-01-04|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hadttLfJ4mk| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/hadttLfJ4mk| archive-date=2021-12-11 | url-status=live|access-date=2019-05-21}}{{cbignore}}</ref> is likely due to confusion with retired Admiral Shinjiro Stefano Yamamoto, who was a decade older than Isoroku, and died in 1942.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Catholic Admiral from Japan |url=https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/the-catholic-admiral-from-japan |website=www.catholic.com |publisher=Catholic Answers |access-date=14 June 2019}}</ref>