Editing Yasuhiro Nakasone (section)

=== Family background ===
[[File:1919. Yasuhiro Nakasone.JPG|thumb|left|200px|One-year-old Nakasone (1919)]]
Nakasone was born in [[Takasaki, Gunma|Takasaki]] in [[Gunma]], a prefecture northwest of Tokyo, on 27 May 1918.<ref name="Lentz2014">{{cite book|last=Lentz|first=Harris M.|title=Heads of States and Governments Since 1945|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D6HKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA464|date=4 February 2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-26490-2|page=464}}</ref><ref name="NYT01">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/30/world/asia/30nakasone.html|title=Japan's Elder Statesman Is Silent No Longer|first=Martin|last=Fackler|page=A11|work=The New York Times|date=29 January 2010|access-date=30 January 2010}}</ref> He was the second son of Nakasone Matsugoro II, a lumber dealer, and Nakamura Yuku. He had five siblings: an elder brother named Kichitaro, an elder sister named Shoko, a younger brother named Ryosuke and another younger brother and younger sister who both died in childhood.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Making of the New Japan|date=6 March 2015|publisher=Curzon Press|isbn=978-0-7007-1246-5|page=14}}</ref> The Nakasone family had been of the ''[[samurai]]'' class during the [[Edo period]], and claimed direct descent from the [[Minamoto clan]] through the famous [[Minamoto no Yoshimitsu]] and through his son [[Minamoto no Yoshikiyo]] (d. 1149). According to family records, Tsunayoshi (k. 1417), a vassal of the [[Takeda clan]] and a tenth-generation descendant of Yoshikiyo, took the name of Nakasone Juro and was killed at the Battle of Sagamigawa.<ref name="Making 1-2">{{cite book|title=The Making of the New Japan|year=2015|publisher=Curzon Press|isbn=978-0-7007-1246-5|pages=1–2}}</ref> In about 1590, the samurai Nakasone Sōemon Mitsunaga settled in the town of {{interlanguage link|Satomimura|ja|里見村 (群馬県)}} in [[Kōzuke Province]]. His descendants became silk merchants and pawnbrokers. Nakasone's father, originally born Nakasone Kanichi, settled in Takasaki in 1912 and established a timber business and lumberyard which had success as a result of the post-[[World War I|WWI]] building boom.<ref name="Making 1-2"/>