These included the Mitsukuri (箕作) family, notable doctors (who held the position of personal physician to the Matsudaira daimyos of Tsuyama, Mimasaka Province (modern-day Okayama Prefecture) who took their name from Mitsukuri castle, held by the Rokkaku family, and of whom a notable member was the statesman and scholar Mitsukuri Rinsho.