rob,
Hi,
As much as I appreciate the depth to which James goes in his researches I must comment that, as always, in the absence of first hand interviews reporting from unsubstantiated sources (or picking from an assortment of conflicting sources) and other hearsay is still only supposition. The fact that one supposition matches our beliefs where another does not in no way make one of the suppositins a better representation of the original situation (in Usui Sesnei's life, for example) than the other.
Cheers,
RC